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1. Annals of Bamboo Books is the official history book of Wei in the Warring States Period, which records the history of Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States Wei and twenty years (-299), and was unearthed in the Western Jin Dynasty.
2. Because it is written on bamboo slips and adopts chronological style, it is called "chronicle of bamboo slips".
3. Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, and the history books of the Warring States period were basically not preserved because of their small circulation compared with other works.
Therefore, Sima Qian wrote Historical Records to describe the major events in the Warring States Period, basically based on the official history books of Qin State and the works of military strategists.
The former account is too simple, while the latter is often full of fictional stories, so Sima Qian himself thinks that the historical events in the Warring States period are difficult to verify.
6. However, after the excavation of bamboo slips chronology, people got new historical materials about the Warring States period and learned a lot of new contents, so they can correct many mistakes, especially the confusion about the chronology of the six countries by comparing with historical books.
7. The chronicles of bamboo books can be divided into ancient books and modern books.
8. The chronicles of bamboo books unearthed in the Western Jin Dynasty were lost in the Song Dynasty.
9. Later, people compiled and published new bamboo annals.
10. However, historians have found that many contents in the Chronicle of Bamboo Books handed down from ancient times are wrong, so its historical value is greatly reduced.
1 1, so the chronology of ancient bamboo books was originally excavated, and the chronology of modern bamboo books was handed down.
12. Because the chronology of ancient bamboo books is very important in the study of Warring States history, historians want to reproduce it as much as possible.
13. This is possible, because although the chronology of ancient bamboo books has been lost, its fragments are often quoted in other historical materials before the Song Dynasty.
14. Because of this, the chronicles of ancient bamboo books have been studied a lot.
For example, 15 mentioned on the first floor, Wang Guowei has devoted himself to its textual research.