History is a mirror and a profound textbook that illuminates reality and illuminates the future. The only continuation of the four major civilizations of the ancient kingdom of Chinese civilization, the orthodox historical record began with the History of Sima Qianwei, and it has become customary for the historians of the previous dynasties to record the history of the previous generations after the end of each dynasty. Thus the textbook of history was formed.
These orthodox histories are the long and rich history of the Central Plains Dynasty or the Han nation that migrated south in uniform, but the history of China is intricate, and in the course of several thousand years of written history, in addition to the great unified Han nationality, there are still dozens of ethnic minorities in the sons and daughters of China, who are constantly migrating and developing and changing, some nationalities have perished in the magnificent wheel of history, some nationalities have divided, disintegrated, and merged into new nationalities, and by the time of the founding of New China, fifty-six nationalities, including the Han nationality, have been formed.
The history of the other half of China, compiled by Mr. Gao Honglei, is precisely to trace the ins and outs of China's 55 ethnic minorities, compose a magnificent epic poem of multi-ethnic groups jointly opening up the territory of the motherland, and is a history of ethnic minorities that can withstand the test of history. Jiangsu Province and others made the book a key recommendation book, and the film "The Film" adapted from the book won the 2013 World Cultural Heritage Award.
In addition to concisely and concisely recording the ins and outs of 55 ethnic minorities, this book has a fresh, peculiar, beautiful text, incisive aphorisms, and can't help but excerpt it. It is indeed a good book, and readers who are interested in history can learn about another humanistic culture in China and the essence of another kind of history.
A person's reading history is the history of his spiritual development. Reading, although it may not change our appearance, can change our temperament and taste, may not necessarily extend the length of our lives, but it can increase the breadth and thickness of our lives, may not necessarily make us richer, but it can certainly make us wiser and more fulfilling.
