Aries edition.
Recommendation of Baiyang Purple Tongzhi Sword
This is a large set of books, with 72 paperbacks and 36 hardbacks. 1985 "Poplar Edition as a Mirror" was elected as the most valuable and best-selling book in China, and this title is well deserved.
In the face of this set of books, you can choose to read it with a serious or relaxed mood, and ambitious or elite people can study it carefully. After all, Zi Tong Zhi Jian was originally written for the Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty (in my opinion, it is an authentic history book), and it is called a tame, textbook and demonstration textbook used by the ruling class. Liang Qichao called it "imperial textbook". To know what China people are thinking, what is their way of thinking, China's political operation and the change of power can be found here; If you just want to kill time, don't spend too much time. Although you read it as a story book recording 1362 China, it is wonderful and there is no silence.
Zi Jian is the first official chronicle of China, which presents the history of China from 403 BC to 959 AD * * * 1362. 1 1 Sima Guang, the representative of the Conservative Party in the Northern Song Dynasty, was responsible for compiling this book. The contents in the book are mainly based on the deeds of monarchs and ministers in previous dynasties and the rise and fall of various dynasties, so as to serve as a warning to emperors in previous dynasties. Regardless of Sima Guang's political stance, Zi Tong Zhi Jian is of great value, and the miniature of China's history, which lasted for more than 1000 years, is just around the corner. However, due to the classical Chinese, such a wonderful history book makes modern people flinch, just like reading a gobbledygook.
1983, the writer Bai Yang translated Zi Tong Zhi Jian into vernacular Chinese. Zhan Hongzhi, the editor-in-chief of Liu Yuan Publishing House at that time, named the book "Mirror of Poplar Edition" and published it in the form of a magazine, which was a pioneering work in both translation and publication. This way of dividing books is also used in the murder franchise store, which is still published.
The selling point of Bai Yang's version of Zi Tong Zhi Jian is not limited to historical materials, but also the writer Bai Yang. Bai Yang's works are like this. He once sat in the literary inquisition and wrote novels and essays. The Outline of China People's History was listed by 1985 as one of the top ten works that had the greatest impact on society, while The Clash of Rivers and The Ugly China People called China culture stinking Jiangbang culture, which caused quite a shock. The writing is spicy and critical. Readers who like Bai Yang will like Zi Zhi Tong Jian Bai Yang Edition, and use Bai Yang's brand to drive the vernacular edition to buy gas. In the original work, the original author Sima Guang added "Chen Guang Yue" to his translation to illustrate his experience, and Bai Yang added "Bai" to his translation to record his experience of reading history. Let's not underestimate Bai Yang's statement that "Bai Yang's version is like a mirror" is more readable only when it is with Bai Yueyang. The background of Bai Yang has been mentioned above, so we can guess what kind of style Bai Yang will use to comment on history or Sima Guang's Chen Guang Yue, which is an extra reading pleasure.
To understand the history of China, we must first understand the influence of climate and geographical environment on China. China's yellow soil, abundant monsoon and Yellow River make China a big agricultural country. The most convenient and labor-saving way to govern farmers is ethics. The essence of ethical code is to strictly abide by the hierarchical system, distinguish between high and low, and distinguish between high and low. The king will always be the king, the literati will always be the literati, and the ordinary people will always be the ordinary people. This cannot be challenged and questioned. This is the most respected and respected by Confucianism. Liu Che, the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, "ousted a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", and the thoughts of China people were controlled for more than two thousand years. Sima Guang is a very typical Confucian scholar, and his sentence "I am a courtier" is completely revealed in Zi Tongzhi Jian, so ethics has become an unbreakable central idea in Zi Tongzhi Jian. In the book, I talked about the era of the first five centuries (the first 403 years? During the Warring States Period (40 BC1year), the Han, Zhao and Wei tribes were divided into Jin. Sima Guang thought this was a great change, so he began to record Zi Jian from here, and in Shangshu Guangyue, he rebuked King Zhou, accusing him of destroying the ethical code, making the Han, Zhao and Wei clans become the monarchs of the country, and talked about the necessity of maintaining the ethical code.
With the ethical code, of course, we should also play word games to show the difference and dignity between the emperor and Shu Ren. As a result, the title of the emperor is extremely complicated, including name, posthumous title, temple number, honorific number, year number and so on. Posthumous title was initiated by the Zhou Dynasty. After the death of the emperor and nobles, the courtiers at the bottom gave him another adjective according to the words and deeds of the emperor's master or nobles before his death. These adjectives have fixed norms, such as: respecting the virtuous and valuing righteousness, calling it "public", being rigid and rational, calling it "martial", being gentle and courteous, and calling it "righteousness". Sometimes, obviously he is an asshole, but no one dares to make fun of his own head and give the dead emperor a posthumous title like "Yi" and "Yang", so posthumous title. Temple number is the name used by the emperor to worship the ancestral temple after hanging himself, such as "zu" and "zong"; Your title is similar to that of posthumous title, and the title is the title of the emperor.
The ancients in China loved to play word games, but they were possessed. The magnificence and inaccuracy of words make it difficult for future generations to read history books. Almost every time I meet the year number and the emperor's name, it's like stepping on a mine. Take posthumous title as an example. The longer posthumous title left behind, the more boring he became. Who knows which guy is "Li Tianlong Genting Jing Ji Jianying, Qin Rui Wu Wenxian Dade Honggong's Ren Zhang Chunxiao Emperor"? It was Aisingiorro Fu Lin in the Qing Dynasty. When Shunzhi was in power, his temple name was Sai-jo, which puzzled future generations. Posthumous title, a disaster to the country and the people, is an out-and-out bastard Empress Dowager Cixi. She simply opened her eyes and told lies, in order to "honor, honor, support of Empress Dowager Cixi, and honor the Star Star and Empress Jingxian". Fortunately, I don't need to look at these ghosts when I watch Baiyang Edition Looking in the Mirror. Liu Che is Liu Che, not called Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, and Liu Heng is Liu Heng, not called Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty. In terms of year, the AD and year number are accessories, so as not to confuse the concept of time and prevent readers from falling into the fog. Other metaphors, such as ancient official names with modern official positions, show that they are no longer confined to names such as "Taishi" and "Yushifu". The comparison between ancient place names and modern place names is helpful to easily understand Baiyangshu Mirror without reference books.
Some people say that the people of China are a suffering people. If you open the Baiyang version of history as a mirror, you will find that there is a war almost every year. Either foreign invasion or civil war, the people are always miserable. If there is no war, there will be famine or flood, which will make people restless. The superiors run amok, the establishment is full of lies, and the people cry bitterly. These examples are just a list. Unless it is oppressed too much, Yang Guang, who pushed people back in a short period of 13 years, is a typical example. Otherwise, China people choose to be docile subjects, and they just have to eat and have clothes to wear.
In addition to wars and disasters, the descriptions of people's deeds are also quite wonderful. After more than a thousand years of history, what kind of people do you want to see? Depends on the bastard, there is; It depends on loyal ministers, there are; It depends on hooligans, there are; It depends on the devil incarnate, there is; It depends on animals, there are; It depends on the martyrs, there are; See sluts, there are ... of course, there are also people who like to read gossip, such as the first emperor's Lao Tzu won the government? Won the aliens or Lv Buwei?
It is suggested that the writers of TV movies should first look at the Bai Yang version as a mirror. There are so many materials here that you can't finish them. Readers who are not screenwriters should be familiar with it, so that when you perform the so-called historical drama on TV, you will have another kind of fun and play with everyone. When you find that many years ago, in The Generation of Queens starring Pan Yingzi, there was a scene where the wet nurse strangled the little princess instead of Wu Zhao, you would fall off your chair laughing.
Therefore, it is definitely not wrong to recommend the Bai Yang version as a mirror.
A little wordy, I hope to adopt it.