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This book does not comprehensively introduce the development of historiography during the Han and Tang Dynasties, but mainly discusses several issues closely related to the development of historiography, such as the relationship between historiography and Confucian classics, historiography and literature, historiography and regions, and social trends of thought, etc. In recent years, the author has realized that the study of the history of historiography cannot ignore the internal development logic of historiography. For this reprint, the author has added two articles in related fields. In addition, this book also particularly emphasizes the inconsistency in the time process between cultural history and dynastic political history. For example, the political end of the Warring States Period was in the Qin Dynasty, but the cultural end of the Warring States Period was in the Han Dynasty. The academic and cultural differences between the north and the south during the Northern and Southern Dynasties also existed until the early Tang Dynasty.

This year, we will dedicate a new series of books to our readers: the Book and People Series. We hope that you can gain profound insights from relatively easy reading. The book introduced here is "Between Virtuality and Reality" by Hu Baoguo (the other three books published at the same time are "Portraits of Qin and Han Wenren" by Wang Zijin, "East Wind and West Wind" by Ge Xiaojia and Luo Zhitian, and "Walking through the Forest of Books" by Ge Zhaoguang). The texts included in this book can be roughly divided into two categories, "one category is related to history, and the other category has nothing to do with history." The former is mainly a few book reviews, from small to large, from recent to far, which not only loses the depth of historians, but also takes into account the interests of readers. The latter belongs to the author's hobby, including memoirs and realistic works, as well as purely fictitious "literary" sketches. The author has excellent performance in the field of medieval history, and these "not related to history" texts are very "interesting". Everyone loves to read interesting articles, and in addition to being interesting, you can also appreciate the author's rich emotions, profound insights and wise thinking.