Twenty-four histories are the collective names of China's twenty-four ancient history books, including Historical Records, Hanshu, Houhanshu, History of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Jin, Book of Song, Book of Nanqi, Liang Shu, Book of Chen, Book of Wei, Book of Beiqi, Book of Zhou, and Book of Song.
The content of the record began with the legendary Yellow Emperor (about the beginning of the 30th century BC) and ended in the 17th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1644). Compilation began in the Western Han Dynasty and ended in the Qing Dynasty, with a time span of 1800 years.
The twenty-four histories were authorized by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and were recognized as "orthodox" history books by the rulers, that is, the name of "official history"-"twenty-four histories" came from this.
Twenty-four History Modern School-based
Organized by Zhonghua Book Company, with more than 100 experts in literature and history all over the country, and with the full cooperation of academic circles and publishing circles all over the country, the most grand ancient books sorting and publishing project in New China, which lasted for 20 years, is a landmark achievement representing the highest achievement of ancient books sorting and publishing 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.
The Twenty-four History of Wuying Temple in Qianlong period was the standard book at that time, but Wuying Temple still had some shortcomings. The Modern Commercial Press searched for rare books of various times and compiled the Twenty-four History of Baiquan Edition, which was the best version of the Twenty-four History at that time.
However, the traditional Twenty-four History has no punctuation and sentence breaks, and it is still difficult to read. In 1950s, it was suggested by the national leaders to focus on the national historians at that time to revise the Twenty-four History and add punctuation, which was the best version of the punctuated Twenty-four History.