Unless it is necessary for research, I don’t know who else has the determination to read through Sima Guang’s "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"? Of course I have not read "Zi Zhi Tong Jian". One of the reasons is that between "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and "Historical Records", I chose Sima Qian among the two Sima. Excerpts from the two Sima's works also appear frequently in middle school Chinese textbooks. When I have the ability to read history books, why would I rather read "Historical Records" instead of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"? Various introductions to "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" all commented on "Zi Zhi Tong Jian": "It mainly takes time as the outline and events as the purpose. It was written from the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou Dynasty (403 BC) to the Five Dynasties later. In the sixth year of Emperor Xiande of Zhou Dynasty (AD 959), the expedition to Huainan was stopped, covering the history of 16 dynasties and 1362 years. In this book, the editor summarized many experiences and lessons for rulers to learn from..." Especially the last sentence, Readers who feel uneasy about official history books will choose "Historical Records" without hesitation, and quietly abandon "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" after "Historical Records".

Is the value of the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" really only "the editor summarized many experiences and lessons for rulers to learn from"? However, as long as we are willing to open "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", we will find that a large group of Confucian writers in the Northern Song Dynasty, headed by Sima Guang, gathered together and worked hard. Their primary goal was of course to write a book that would allow rulers to learn from history. is a large tome. However, if we skim over those words of admonishment that may sound a bit outdated when we read them today, we will find that the historical stories written in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" are comparable to those in "Historical Records" - -I have this understanding because of the "Bo Yang's vernacular version of Zizhi Tongjian" series compiled by Mr. Bai Yang who spent a lot of effort during his lifetime.

Philosophers wither, but the brilliance of their thoughts always shines upon us. Ten years after Mr. Bo Yang's death, his "Bo Yang Vernacular Version of Zizhi Tongjian" was adapted by Ms. Zhou Lili. It used dynasties and the time when historical events occurred as the outline, selected historical facts that summarized experiences and lessons, and became a book. A set of enlightenment editions of "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" suitable for children to read - "Bo Yang's History: Young People Reading "Zi Zhi Tong Jian"". There are 10 books in this series, namely "Warring States and Qin", "Winds and Clouds of the Western Han Dynasty", "Resurgence of the Eastern Han Dynasty", "Three Kingdoms", "Unification of the Western Jin Dynasty", "Pianan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty", "Southern and Northern Dynasties", "The Legend of the Sui Dynasty II" and "The Great Age of the Tang Dynasty" "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms". This set of "Bo Yang's History: Youngsters Reading "Zizhi Tongjian"" is about to meet readers. I only had time to read the "Warring States and Qin" volume. "Three Families Divide Jin", "Qin Reform", " Many of the stories in the chapters such as "Sun Bin and Pang Juan", "North-South Alliance - Anti-Qin Alliance", "East-West Alliance - Alliance with Qin", etc. are all "familiar strangers", which have been seen in movies, TV dramas and history textbooks before. I have watched and read it from different angles in "Up and Down Five Thousand Years", especially Mr. Lin Handa's "Up and Down Five Thousand Years", which is almost every teenager's enlightenment book on Chinese history. In this case, Zhou Lili Is it necessary for the lady to put so much effort into rewriting "Bo Yang's vernacular version of Zizhi Tongjian" into a juvenile version? However, she just needs to put aside the historical stories that she thinks she is familiar with and follow Mr. Bo Yang like a historical idiot? We will slowly understand the "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" that we have become particularly familiar with due to Mr. Sima Guang's "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" and patiently tell those things that he must know that we should I am already familiar with historical stories because my husband believes that the best reading context for historical stories is to put them in chronicles. For example, the story about Zhang Yi running around trying to connect the world as the Prime Minister of Qin, I first read it through Hong Kong. It is known from the movie "Qu Yuan". It is self-evident how a movie that promotes Qu Yuan's spirit of "the road is long and long, and I will pursue it high and low" will praise and criticize Qu Yuan's opposite Zhang Yi. Although I have read Zhang Yi's story through other texts, every aspect of Zhang Yi put together has been "refracted", which always makes me feel that Zhang Yi and the historical moments of his life are not so consistent. < /p>

It was "Warring States and Qin" that made me see a Zhang Yi that I was particularly convinced of. At that moment, I seemed to understand Mr. Bo Yang's painstaking efforts. He told us in a way that was consistent with the original text. Only by properly placing historical figures and events into the long history and reading and understanding can we get the correct answer.

To be honest, it is a pity that Mr. Bo Yang will insert a paragraph of "Sima" from time to time in his big book. "Guang Yue". Now, the "Sima Guang Yue" we read has been translated into modern Chinese by Mr. Bo Yang. Presumably, when Mr. Bo Yang started writing the series of "Bo Yang Vernacular Edition of Zizhi Tongjian", people's classical Chinese level was at the peak of Low point. And this kind of popular awareness is now adapted to children's reading needs. In recent years, CCTV's "Chinese Poetry Conference" program and ancient poetry competitions for middle school students across the country have become popular among teenagers. There is a craze for reading ancient Chinese poems, and I think today's teenagers are fully capable of controlling the "Sima Guang Yue" extracted from "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", if the readers of the series can "go back to history". While reading about historical figures and events, you can also learn or consolidate your classical Chinese reading skills through the "Sima Guang said" link. It will be a perfect experience of getting close to traditional Chinese culture.