"Tiangong Kaiwu" is the world's first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production. It is a comprehensive scientific and technological work in ancient China. Some people also call it an encyclopedia. The author is Song Yingxing, a scientist from the Ming Dynasty. Foreign scholars call it "the encyclopedia of Chinese crafts in the 17th century". In the book, the author emphasizes that human beings must coordinate with nature, and human power must cooperate with natural forces. It is the most abundantly preserved historical material on science and technology in China. It focuses more on the handicraft industry and reflects the state of productivity during the budding period of capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty in China.
"Compendium of Materia Medica", Materia Medica Works, 52 volumes. Li Shizhen (Dongbi) of the Ming Dynasty wrote it from the 31st year of Jiajing (1552) to the 6th year of Wanli (1578). The manuscript was written in three changes. This book adopts the writing style of "Mosui Gangju", so it is named after "Gangmu". Make changes based on "Zhenglei Materia Medica". The preface (Volume 1 and 2) is equivalent to the general introduction, describing the essentials of Materia Medica and the theory of medicinal properties.
"Historical Records" is a biographical history book written by the famous historian Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in Chinese history. It is listed as the first of the "Twenty-Four Histories" and records everything from ancient times to ancient times. The legendary Huangdi era has a history of more than 3,000 years, down to the fourth year of Taichu reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Together with the later "Hanshu", "Houhanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", it is called the "First Four Histories". The whole book of "Historical Records" includes twelve chronicles (recording the achievements of emperors of the past dynasties), thirty families (recording the rise and fall of vassal states and Han Dynasty princes, honors and nobles), and seventy biographies (recording the words and deeds of important figures, mainly describing people and ministers, among which the last one Chapters are self-prefaced), Ten Tables (chronology of major events), Eight Books (recording various laws and regulations, etiquette, music, music, calendar, astronomy, Zen, water conservancy, and financial use), ***130 chapters, five More than 126,500 words. "Historical Records" has had a profound impact on the development of historiography and literature in later generations. His pioneering method of chronicling historiography was passed down by the "official histories" of subsequent dynasties. "Historical Records" is also considered an excellent literary work, playing an important role in the history of Chinese literature. It was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the unrhymed "Li Sao"" and has high literary value.