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"Zuo Zhuan" and "Warring States Policy" are important classics recording the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Zuo Zhuan" explains the "Spring and Autumn" and is said to have been written by Zuo Qiu Ming in the late Spring and Autumn Period. It not only records the historical facts of the Spring and Autumn Period, but also cites many historical facts of the previous dynasties. It has very important historical material value and represents the highest achievement of pre-Qin historiography. It has a great influence on the historical research and development of later generations, especially in establishing the status of chronicle history books. It is also a very excellent literary work. It is good at describing wars and characters, and pays attention to recording the characters' diction. "Warring States Policy" mainly records the political opinions and diplomatic strategies of various countries' advisers and strategists during the Warring States Period, as well as their lobbying words. It is a country-specific history book that is divided into the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin, Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, Song, Wei, and Zhongshan. It is compiled into 33 volumes in total. The history recorded in it starts from Zhibo's destruction of the Fan family in 490 BC, to Gao Jianli's attack on Qin Shihuang in 221 BC. "Warring States Policy" centers on the lobbying activities of strategists, reflects the political and diplomatic conditions of various countries during this period, and preserves a summary of the history of the Warring States Period for more than two hundred years, which has important historical value. At the same time, "Warring States Policy" is also a very good historical prose work, marking a new period in the development of ancient Chinese prose. The literary nature is very prominent, especially in the portrayal of characters, the use of language and rhetoric, and the description of fables. It has very distinctive artistic features.

In the book "General History of China", we have adopted a completely different third approach, trying to reduce subjective evaluations, expanding our horizons from traditional aspects such as the rice economy, dynastic family systems, foreign invasions from northern nomads, and Confucian classical orthodoxy. We have included major historical events in agriculture, science, handicrafts, culture, tax systems, legal systems, bureaucracies, etc. Into the book, and transformed the imperial genealogical nature of traditional Chinese history books into the nature of a historical encyclopedia. Although we strive to use line drawings to present the facts of Chinese history, no one can expect that a history book can tell all the rise and fall, humanistic trends, and regulations and systems in China's history. After all, the five thousand years of glorious China's historical accumulation are too heavy for a book to bear. We just hope that the clever and meticulous narrative in the book can make you feel the grand national power of the Tang Dynasty and the economic boom of the Song Dynasty; the vivid pictures of cultural relics can make you feel the brutal killing strategy and the might of the strong cavalry; The real-life pictures can let you feel the artistic charm of the grottoes of the Northern Dynasties and the dance pavilions of the Southern Dynasties... In addition to allowing readers to dream back to the previous dynasties through pictures and texts, we also hope to make the heavy historical facts concise and let the wisdom in history enlighten your life today.