Ten classic history books that must be read: Zhang China's Outline of Human History, Human Stories, Historical Records, General History of the World, Li Zicheng, Zi Zhi Tong Jian, Spring and Autumn Period, Fifteen Years of Wanli and Ming Dynasty.

1. Zhang

Zhang is a novel by Xiong. The book, consisting of four volumes, was published in 2002.

2. Outline of China People's History

June 5438 +2008 10 Shanxi People's Publishing House published the Outline of China People's History. It was written by Bai Yang, a native of Taiwan Province. It is one of his most important works and one of the most outstanding representative works of modern writers in China. Completed in prison, this book tells and comments on the history of China from the mythical era of Pangu's creation to Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of Beijing in the first year of the 20th century with nearly 800,000 words.

3. The story of mankind

1988, Sanlian Bookstore published Long Fang's work "The Story of Human Nature" for the first time, which set off quite a long Fang fever in China. In this book, Long Fang presents the history of human civilization development for thousands of years in front of readers with vivid and fluent words.

Its story begins from ancient times, tells the origin of Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, tells the glory of Greek and Roman times, tells the development and evolution of medieval society along the clue of religious rise, and tells the story of the rise of cities, the Renaissance, and the changes and revolutions in various countries around the world.

4. Historical records

Historical Records is one of the twenty-four histories, formerly known as Taishi Gong Shu or Taishi Gong Gong Ji. It is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and the first biographical general history in China history. It has written a history of four years and more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty.

In the first year of Taichu (104 BC), Sima Qian began to write this book, and it took 14 years to complete it.

5. Global history

Global General History is a world history work by famous British and American historians, and it is called the pioneering work in the field of world general history. Since its publication, it has been translated into more than ten languages in many countries and won unanimous praise from readers all over the world.

The Chinese version of this book was referenced by Li Yunzhe, a well-known translator, and lasted for five years. The book begins with the origin of human beings, the birth of prehistoric civilization and Paleolithic age, and lasts for thousands of years, analyzing five continents until the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.

6. Li Zicheng

Li Zicheng is Yao's long historical novel. There are five volumes published in 1963 1999. "Li Zicheng" tells the story that Li Zicheng led the rebels to various places and was besieged by Hong Chengchou, the governor of the Ming Dynasty. Breaking through Nanyuan in Tongguan and gathering in Shangluo Mountain stopped the mutiny in Shimen Valley and smashed the encirclement and suppression of loyalists.

7. Purple Tongzhi scissors

Zi Tong Zhi Jian is a multi-volume chronological history book edited by Sima Guang, a historian of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes, which took 19 years to complete. Mainly take time as the key link and events as the purpose.

8. Spring and Autumn Period

Spring and Autumn Annals is a literary work of ancient history in China. Also known as Chunqiu Jing, Lin Jing or Lin Shi. Later, there appeared many works that supplemented, explained and expounded the history recorded in Spring and Autumn Annals, which were called biographies. Representative works include Zuo Zhuan, Ram Zhuan and Gu Liangzhuan, which are collectively called the three great biographies of the Spring and Autumn Period.

The language used in Spring and Autumn Annals is extremely concise, but almost every sentence implies the meaning of praise and criticism, and it is called Spring and Autumn Annals by later generations.

9. Fifteen years of Wanli

Fifteen Years of Wanli is a historical work created by Huang Renyu, which was first published in 198 1. The book * * * is divided into seven chapters, written by the supreme ruler Emperor Wanli, Zhang, model bureaucrat Harry, liberal intellectual Li Zhi and anti-Japanese hero Qi Jiguang. At the same time, it also wrote many contradictions between them, such as the contradiction between emperors and ministers, the contradiction between conservatives and liberals, the contradiction between officials and so on.

10. What happened in the Ming Dynasty?

The historical work of humanities and social sciences, Things of the Ming Dynasty, is serialized on the Internet. Author Yue Ming, whose real name is Shi Yue, is a civil servant of Guangdong Shunde Customs. It was first launched in Tianya Community in March 2006 and serialized on March 2, 20091. While writing, I compiled and published seven books.