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Douban: 9.1 points
"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" mainly tells the history of the Ming Dynasty in the three hundred years from 1344 to 1644, referring to more than 20 kinds of Ming Dynasty historical materials and notes such as "Ming Shilu", "Ming Tongjian", "Ming History", "Ming History Chronicle", etc., reviewed and recommended by Mao Peiqi, an expert in Ming history, overlooking the three hundred years of Ming history, and seeing a different Ming Dynasty:
Highlight 1 Look at the unique personality of the emperor
In the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, after 16 emperors, no emperor is a similar routine
Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to learn entrepreneurship / The apocalypse of Emperor Jianwen's failure / Emperor Jiajing's power vertical and horizontal technique / Ming Wuzong, a literary and artistic young man/Ming Xiaozong who insisted on monogamy/Ming Xizong, the carpentry emperor......
Very interesting point 2 Look at the military heroes who are full of wizards
There are so many loyal and righteous people that people sigh. Cold-eyed to the enemy, shed tears for heroes
Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, how should the genealogy of the founding god of war be arranged/Scholar Yu Qian won the battle to defend Beijing/Why is Wang Yangming worshipped by Japan people/Qi Jiguang, a formation madman/Is Yuan Chonghuan a hero or a sinner......
Very interesting point 3 Look at the celestial group of famous ministers that have been passed down through the ages
Interpret officialdom politics and imperial power schemes. Talking about the country, power, the world, and the hearts of the people
Yao Guangxiao, the man behind Zhu Di/The multi-faceted life of Hai Rui, a generation of Qing officials/Xu Jie, the number one politician of the Ming Dynasty/Who was touched by Zhang Juzheng's reforms//What kind of organization is the Donglin Party......
Very interesting point 4 Look at the cultural glory of the old and the new
The Spring and Autumn Period of Hanmo, poetry and painting, and the legend of novels, a dynasty with culture, economy, and art flourishing
How was "Yongle Canon" compiled/The prodigal genius Tang Bohu/The four strange books of the Ming Dynasty ("The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West" and "The Golden Bottle") / The madman Li Zhen ......
The Ming Dynasty was a bloody dynasty, a bizarre dynasty, a strong and warm dynasty, and a magnificent dynasty that had endured calamities. The Ming Dynasty is like a fold in Chinese history, and every time you open a story, there are wonderful stories that contain the cultural code, political logic, and human experience that belong to the Chinese.
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Douban: 8.7 points
14 wars, 376 questions, connecting the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, solving cases, and looking for the truth of the Three Kingdoms. More than 130 maps reveal the truth of history from a geographical point of view.
By describing 14 wars and conspiracy coups, this book breaks down and tells the most storytelling and treacherous history of the Three Kingdoms, among which the grand wars such as the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, the Battle of Yiling, the Battle of Jieting, the famous coup d'état of Gaopingling and the Three Rebellions of Huainan are all written in a heart-wrenching and exciting way; It deeply analyzes the underlying logic, human sophistication and political ecology on which key historical figures make decisions, so that we can understand human nature while reading history.
This book uses a case-solving style to find the truth of history, sometimes suspenseful, sometimes cloudy; Use 376 questions to connect the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, such as: Why is Cao Cao's life impossible to replicate? Why did the ancient archers shoot "left to right, right to shoot left"? Why is the "Meridian Valley Scheme" not destined to succeed? It is both knowledgeable and storytelling; More than 130 maps have been carefully drawn to help us understand the truth of history from a geographical point of view.
Follow the Bohai officials and read a different history of the Three Kingdoms!
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Douban: 9.0 points
The opening work of "Li Shuo's History of China", starting the reading of Chinese history from this book!
This book mainly tells about the emergence and transformation of Chinese civilization. From the emergence of the Xia Dynasty (Erlitou Culture) 4,000 years ago to the fall of the Shang Dynasty and the establishment of the Western Zhou Dynasty 3,000 years ago, the time span is more than 1,000 years.
Since the Neolithic Age, a primitive religion of murder and sacrifice has been formed in North China. The Xia Dynasty (Erlitou), the first dynasty, also followed this culture of human sacrifice and reached its peak in the subsequent Shang Dynasty. The Zhou people were isolated in the west, and there was no tradition of sacrifice, but they once took refuge in the Shang Dynasty and hunted the Qiang people for sacrifice for the Shang Dynasty. King Wen of Zhou was detained as a human animal in Yindu because he was suspected by the king of Shang, and finally, King Wen's eldest son, Boyi Kao, was sacrificed by the king of Zhou. King Wen learned the merchants' Yi hexagram arithmetic techniques, and developed the hexagram and epigram system of the Book of Changes, which recorded many events that King Wen of Zhou personally experienced and cognitive, with the ultimate goal of calculating the strategy of "Jian Shang".
After King Wu destroyed the merchants, he imitated the human sacrifice of the merchants; After the death of King Wu, the Zhou Duke completely banned the religion of human sacrifice, destroyed the documentary records about human sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty, and created a set of idealized historical narratives without human sacrifice, as well as a secular political and moral system based on "virtue".
These measures of Zhou Gong created a new Chinese civilization. Five hundred years later, Confucius compiled the Confucian "Six Classics" and systematically sorted out the theoretical achievements of Zhou Gong. Duke of Zhou and Confucius shaped Confucianism, the influence of which continues into modern times.
In a nutshell, with the help of archaeological materials and hand-me-down documents, this book sorts out the whole process of the generation, prosperity and demise of the ancient human sacrifice custom, as well as the great turning point of human sacrifice and early Chinese civilization from the association to the separation, and reproduces the great efforts made by the ancients (Zhou people) to end the Shang Dynasty and the custom of human sacrifice, so that we have a new understanding of the origin of Chinese civilization.
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Douban: 8.5 points
This book is a popular work that tells the historical process and the fate of the characters during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, taking the experience of many key historical figures in the Anshi Rebellion, namely Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, An Lushan, Yan Gaoqing, Ge Shuhan, Yang Yuhuan, Li Heng, Zhang Xun and others as clues, focusing on the important issues in the process of the Tang Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline, and explaining why the chaos broke out and why the prosperous era collapsed with the experiences of those who experienced the chaos, so as to re-depict the complete historical picture of the Anshi Rebellion.
1. The works of Zhang Mingyang, a cutting-edge historical author, are recommended by many famous artists
As a columnist, Zhang Mingyang has worked in professional book review media, reading, researching and writing history for more than 20 years, and is the author of historical works such as "This History is About the Wind and the Moon", "Destiny and the Sword", "Extraordinary People", "Talking on Paper" and other historical works, which have been recommended by major domestic book lists for many times. This book has also been recommended by Yu Yunguo, Xu Jilin, Liu Qing, Zhang Hongjie, Zhou Lian, and Guo Jianlong.
2. Pay attention to historical facts and details, and show the struggles and choices of individuals in the great era of change
The author focuses on several key figures in the Anshi Rebellion, such as Li Linfu, Yang Guozhong, An Lushan, Yan Gaoqing, Ge Shuhan, Yang Yuhuan, Li Heng, Zhang Xun, etc., and extracts the corresponding time nodes and keywords, reasonably extends, supplements the blanks in the narrative of historical books, shows the struggles and choices of individuals in the great era in the details, and focuses on important issues in the process of the Tang Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline.
3. Popular history reading, easy to read
Relying on historical facts, the book puts aside the narration of the overall history, and focuses on depicting the group portraits of the characters in the Anshi Rebellion, which is a popular work that tells the historical process and the fate of the characters during the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty. The author adheres to a serious historical attitude, uses delicate writing to tell the story, and turns the broken mountains and rivers in the sword and sword shadows into several scenes, which is not like a cold and hard historical work, but more like a literary creation, which makes people have to read Fang Xiu at the beginning. The audiobook of the same name is also on the shelves of Himalaya at the same time, bringing a different "reading" experience.
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Douban: 8.8 points
This book is Liu Bo's new work after "The Wrong Way of the Warring States", which still focuses on the youth of ancient China.
Spring and Autumn is an era of bad etiquette. The feudal system centered on Zhou Tianzi was unsustainable, and a new centralized system was not established.
Spring and Autumn is an era of inheriting the past and opening up the future. Qi Huan and Jin Wen are dominant, the fox is in charge of the marquis, and Confucius and Laozi are even more influential. In the jungle of troubled times, heroes and great men have emerged.
A history of the Spring and Autumn Period laid the foundation for the entire history of China.
In the face of the daunting miscellaneous characters and complicated events, the author Liu Bo peeled back the cocoon, compared the true and false historical records, absorbed the latest archaeological data, and used witty and relaxed language to turn the complicated and obscure into ups and downs, outlining a picture of the rise and fall of the countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, and also leaving the last back of the aristocratic era, reproducing the dilemmas, struggles and struggles they faced.
Completely different from the previously published "Reading the Spring and Autumn Period", Liu Bo tried to build a new structure and write the history of the Spring and Autumn Period. Analyzing and sorting out the historical development context from the perspective of geographical relations is a major feature of the writing of this book.
In the midst of internal and external troubles, why did Zhou Tianzi fail to break through? Qi, Jin, Qin, Chu, how do the great powers and heroes play? The nobles of the family, why is it gradually entering the twilight in the Spring and Autumn Period? These may seem like problems unique to ancient China, but they are in fact unique to the modern world. The turmoil of the Spring and Autumn Period can still give us a lot of inspiration and imagination.