In my opinion, beginners don't need to study history systematically, but can study in different dynasties and events according to their own interests. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer the military. First, I read ten famous generals in China, China and China Confucian scholars, and then I read a lot of unofficial history classics about generals such as Sun Wu, Sun Bin, Han Xin, Cao Cao and Zhuge Liang. There will be many problems in the middle, and then continue to check the information with questions. After getting the answer, I will be very impressed, and the causes and processes of many historical events will be very impressed. Later, I learned in my study that Guo Moruo wrote "The Three Hundred Years Festival of Shen Jia", and then I found this article, understood the significance of this article, and learned that another article written by Jin Yong's old man Yuan Chonghuan was all about corruption, which was impressive. I read Yi Zhongtian and tasted the Three Kingdoms, and I knew something about the military, politics and even cultural customs at that time. When I read Kangxi Dynasty, I looked at history in the light of that dynasty. In fact, many authors of historical romance novels refer to a large number of historical documents, some of which are historical, but many of them are in line with history. More importantly, we can understand the author's view of history by watching historical novels and TV plays. If you can understand this, it means that you are suitable for studying history and can benefit from it.
Learning history is like this, you must accumulate a lot, and you must have a certain accumulation in learning history! When you accumulate more, you will actively try to string these scattered horizontal lines together with a vertical line (that is, time). The more you accumulate, the more things will be on this vertical line. You will constantly compare the political, economic and cultural differences between dynasties, and you will gradually form your own historical view through comparison. Knowing this, I suggest you take a look at Marxist historical materialism. Influenced by our history teacher in high school, I think Marxist historical materialism is very reasonable. As a tool to analyze history, it can be said that it has given us a lot of inspiration and is on the side of the people.
One more thing, it is important for us to learn from history, sum up lessons and even judge the general trend of today's world! Don't just remember those times. Let's talk about something else: I think the history textbooks we learned before high school are basically made by teachers to recite time and events, which will only make us feel that history is boring. No wonder young people nowadays go to discos and Internet cafes. I suggest that history teachers learn from Mr. Yi Zhongtian, hehe!
Let's stop here. I hope it's useful to you.