Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
Reading books first read history, these are the words of Mr. Qian Mu, the "grandmaster of a generation". He said in the preface to the Outline of National History: "The citizens of any country, especially those who claim to have knowledge above the level, should have a slight knowledge of the past history of their own country. Otherwise, at most, only one person with knowledge can be counted, and no citizen with knowledge can be counted. ”
Qian Liqun, a contemporary scholar and expert in language education, once said: At the primary and secondary school stage, the main means of education is to guide students to read and read good books.
Chinese historical books are vast and huge, not to mention that modern people look scared, even the ancients have headaches. Sima Guang, the protagonist of the story of smashing the cylinder, sighed in this way: Since the migration and consolidation, there have been many words, and the people in cloth have not read it all; in the case of the lord of the people, there are thousands of opportunities in the day, why bother to look around? Meaning: Since Sima Qian and Ban Gu, there have been many historical texts, and the cloth people can't read them all, let alone the emperor of the Day, where does he have time to read it?
Therefore, after the failure of the PK with Wang Anshi, the frustrated Sima Guang built a private garden garden in Luoyang, duyuan Garden, and then gathered a group of colleagues to find all the main history, the wild history, and the miscellaneous history, and "cut the lengthy and the opportunity" day and night, so that "the bones and bones were paralyzed, the eyes were faint, the teeth and teeth were few, and the divine consciousness was decayed", and finally after fifteen years, it was compiled into a book and dedicated to Song Shenzong. Emperor Shenzong believed that the book was "in view of the past, and had the resources to govern the Tao", gave it the title "Zizhi Tongjian", and personally wrote a preface to it.
The Zizhi Tongjian starts from the twenty-third year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC) to the sixth year of the fifth dynasty of Zhou Shizong Xiande (959), a total of 1362 years of history, 294 volumes, more than 3 million words, which is 6 times the number of words in the "History".
When Sima Guang himself chatted with friends, he also said that since he wrote the Zizhi Tongjian, many people have proposed to read it carefully, but the vast majority of people have not read half of the book, and have already yawned for days and dozed off. (The taster said: "Since I am the Zizhi Tongjian, many people want to read it, but they have not finished a piece of paper, and they have not been able to think about it.) ”）
Ancient scholars are not easy to read, let alone modern ordinary people? Children are even more daunting. If you want to read history at one end, and a history book that is difficult to read, what should you do? How can we make the boring tome history books thin, quintessential, and good,so that children can enjoy the pleasure of reading while increasing their historical knowledge?
In August this year, the People's Literature Publishing House and Jiujiu Readers jointly launched the "Zizhi Tongjian for Teenagers", which proposed a good solution to this problem.
"Teenagers Read "Zizhi Tongjian" in 20 volumes, is currently the largest set of historical popularization books on the market, it through 311 fascinating historical stories, vividly interpreted more than a thousand years of dynastic changes, historical rise and fall and personnel vicissitudes, the greatest possible presentation of the whole picture of historical development.
Taking into account the reading interests and characteristics of children and young people, this set of books, under the premise of respecting history, has scientifically cut historical materials, turned boring tome chronicles into interesting and orderly story matrices, and vividly presented important figures and major events in history in plain language through a large number of character dialogues.
For example, the famous story of "Ming Xiu Zhan Dao, Secret Crossing Chen Cang" in history has only more than 100 words in the "Zizhi Tongjian", and the 6th "Also Ding Sanqin" in the 3rd volume of "Juvenile Reading" uses 3,000 words to use Liu Bang to enter the Central Plains in order to go east, adopting Han Xin's strategy of "attacking the west with sound from the east", explicitly repairing the zhan dao, but in fact, the story of the surprise attack on Chen Cang and the capture of Guanzhong is interpreted in a sound and colorful way, and the details are very rich.
In order to avoid fragmenting the entire history, this set of books pays special attention to the continuity and systematization of historical events, paying attention to the stringing of big events from small stories and interpreting big times with big events. Between stories and stories, the order is clear, and the history is pushed to the depth in an orderly manner, helping children's readers to truly and three-dimensionally perceive the development of history
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