What is twenty-four in twenty-four histories?

Twenty-four histories are the general name of twenty-four historical books written by China in the past dynasties. Because the writing style of Historical Records has been accepted as a formal historical writing technique in past dynasties, historical books written in biographical style like Historical Records are called "official history". It began in the legendary Yellow Emperor (about 2550 BC) and ended in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1644), with a total of 32 13 volumes and about 40 million words. It was written in a unified biographical style combining biographies and biographies.

192 1 year, President Xu Shichang of the Republic of China ordered the New Yuan History to be included in the official history, and together with the twenty-four histories, it was called the twenty-five histories. However, the New Yuan History was not included in most places, but the Draft of Qing History was listed as one of the twenty-five histories. If both books are included in the official history, it will be formed.

Biographical history books represented by Twenty-four History occupy an extremely important position in the history of Chinese civilization. "Twenty-four History" crisscrossed and strung together in the form of biographies, tables and records, recording the historical overview of each dynasty; At the same time, based on the rise and fall of China dynasties, it reflects the complicated historical process of China, making China and the Chinese nation the only countries and nations in the world with a coherent and complete historical record of nearly 4,000 years. This is a precious historical and cultural heritage that the Chinese nation is proud of and deserves further development.

The school-based "Twenty-four Histories" was instructed by President Mao Zedong, personally deployed by Premier Zhou Enlai, and organized by Zhonghua Book Company with more than 0/00 experts in literature and history, and the academic and publishing circles of the whole country worked together to complete the most ambitious project of sorting out and publishing ancient books in new China in the past 20 years, which is a symbolic achievement representing the highest achievement of sorting out and publishing ancient books in new China. The exploration and practice of the collation of Twenty-four History has accumulated rich experience for the collation of traditional documents, established the basic paradigm and standard of the collation of ancient books in the modern sense, and laid a solid foundation for the construction of the collation of ancient books.