For senior high school students, if the main purpose of reading The View of Ancient Chinese is to improve their understanding of ancient Chinese, it is recommended to read The Famous Translator-The View of Ancient Chinese by Zhonghua Book Company. This is a Selected Model of Ancient Chinese Prose compiled by the editorial department of Zhonghua Book Company, which contains hundreds of excellent prose works from pre-Qin to Ming Dynasty. It adopts the combination of "free translation" and "literal translation", always follows the original text, and has certain freedom and restrictions on the translation of the original text, aiming at making this book a medium or way for readers to understand the original text. In this book, every writer has a brief biography in front of him, on the one hand, he introduces the writer (or book), on the other hand, he comments on the works to help readers understand the personality and writing style of the ancients; At the same time, after each original text, some notes are added to explain some ambiguous words in the translation, and some names and people who are not explained in the translation are explained to help readers understand the original text more deeply besides reading the translation.
If your level of classical Chinese is relatively high, it is recommended to buy The View of Classical Chinese-Comments on Classical Masterpieces by Zhonghua Book Company. This edition is based on the book "The View of Ancient Literature" published by Yingxuetang in the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong (1789), and retains all the notes and comments of the second generation of Wu people (Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou in Qing Dynasty), with few translations. Comments are the crowning touch, which makes people appreciate the true meaning of the article.