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A Comprehensive Reading of Sima Qian's Historical Records
Want to easily read the historical classic "Historical Records"? This read-through is an excellent choice. It presents the "Historical Records" written by the Western Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian in an easy-to-understand vernacular, allowing more people to appreciate the charm of this historical masterpiece. "Historical Records" is recognized as a model of Chinese history books and the first of the Twenty-Four Histories. It was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the unrhymed "
1.2kReads—Score157Shelves
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Sima Guang Zizhi Tongjian Comprehensive Reader
You may have opened "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", hoping to touch the historical context in the stories of the ancients, but you were tortured by the awkward words and complex grammar. Reading became difficult and time-consuming, and every page was like an arduous trek. In fact, most of us don't want to be word-for-word scholars who analyze every allusion word for word. We are just out of pure curiosity to know how the ancients lived, how they weighed the choices they made, and how they left their own mar
866Reads—Score172Shelves
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A Complete Guide to Plum Blossom Numerology
Plum Blossom Numerology is a divination method derived from the Book of Changes and traditionally associated with the Northern Song scholar Shao Yong. Its name has quite a story behind it. Legend has it that Shao Yong once saw sparrows fighting over a plum blossom branch and casually cast a hexagram, predicting that a woman would be injured while picking flowers. The prediction came true, and the method got its name from the incident. The method’s greatest strength is its flexibility and simplic
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Wang Fuzhi's Comprehensive Commentary on the Zizhi Tongjian
On Reading the Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance is a masterpiece of historical commentary by Wang Fuzhi, a thinker of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He began writing it at the age of sixty-nine and completed it shortly before his death, pouring a lifetime of effort into the work, which runs to more than 600,000 characters. Based on the historical record in Sima Guang's Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, the book systematically examines the history of feudal society from
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A Comprehensive Reading of the Essentials of Qi Min
"Qi Min Yaoshu" is a comprehensive agricultural book compiled by Jia Sixie, an agriculturist in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is also the earliest and most complete ancient agricultural book in China. It was written around the 6th century AD. In the title of the book, "Qi Min" refers to the common people, and "Yao Shu" refers to the important methods of making a living, which points out the practical value of the book. The book has 10 volumes in total and covers a wide range of content: from the
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Zhuangzi Comprehensive Reading
"Zhuangzi" is a collection of philosophical essays written by Zhuang Zhou, a representative figure of Taoism during the Warring States Period, and his followers. It is also called "Nanhua Jing" and is also called "Laozi and Zhuangzi" together with "Laozi". It is an important classic of Taoist thought. There are 33 chapters in the book, divided into three parts: internal chapters, external chapters, and miscellaneous chapters. It is generally believed that the 7 inner chapters were written by Zhu
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Hu Sansheng Zizhi Tongjian Comprehensive Reader
Want to understand Hu Sansheng's version of Zizhi Tongjian, but are stumped by the obscure ancient texts and Hu Sansheng's traditional Chinese annotations? Don't worry, this read-through has got you covered! As a masterpiece of history, "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" contains rich historical wisdom, and Hu Sansheng's annotations add a lot of color to it. However, the original work and annotations are both in traditional Chinese characters, and the diction is archaic, making it difficult for even knowledgeab
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A Complete Reading of the Su Shui Ji Wen
The Records of Sushui is a collection of notes in the form of recorded sayings compiled by Sima Guang, a historian of the Northern Song. It takes its name from the fact that the author was from Sushui Township in Xia County, Shaanzhou, and was known as the Master of Sushui. The book was never completed. It was originally a compilation of historical material that Sima Guang gathered while preparing to write A Sequel to the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, covering Song history to suppl
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A Complete Reader's Edition of Yulizi
The Master of Yu Li is a collection of allegorical prose by Liu Bowen, the renowned politician and writer of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and is considered his representative work. Liu Bowen, whose given name was Ji and whose courtesy name was Bowen, was from Qingtian, Zhejiang. Bright from an early age and widely learned, he studied astronomy, geography, military strategy, and many other fields in depth. He was ambitious and longed to put his talents to use in politics and realize h
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Think Tank Read-Through
"Wisdom Tank" is a collection of wisdom cases from past dynasties compiled by Feng Menglong, a writer in the late Ming Dynasty in his later years. It can be called the "Encyclopedia of Oriental Wisdom". At that time, the court was in turmoil. With the original intention of "helping the world with wisdom", Feng Menglong read through the classics and history collections and official unofficial histories, collecting all kinds of wisdom deeds from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and finally
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A Complete Guide to the Ma Yi Method of Face Reading
The Book of Ma Yi Physiognomy is said to have been written by the Daoist Ma Yi during the Northern Song Dynasty. It is China's earliest surviving systematic treatise on reading the human face and body, and holds an important place in the field of physiognomy. Based on the theory of yin and yang and the Five Elements, the book constructs a complete and complex system of face reading. It holds that the facial features and different parts of the body correspond to different yin-yang and Five Elemen
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