As the first round of the New Year's event.
We want to do something tangible for our readers.
We know that many readers and friends have a set of "Historical Records" published by Zhonghua Book Company on their shelves, but for various reasons, this set of books has been left on the bookshelf to eat dust. It's not that I don't like to read, but for many friends who love Chinese history, it is somewhat difficult to read the "Historical Records".
Large volume. 130 volumes, 520,000 words, the volume is huge, and there are many clues about the characters, and beginners often don't know where to start.
I can't read it. Many people who intend to read it from beginning to end are often dissuaded by the text of the first "Five Emperors Benji". Written more than 2,000 years ago, the words, geography, and famous objects in it are very different from those in modern Chinese, and they are obscure.
Can't read through. Due to the avoidance of taboos, Taishi Gongxingwen uses Spring and Autumn penmanship in many places, and the true meaning is hidden between the lines, which is often not easy for beginners to notice. And many narratives are hard to get true without a clear context.
The 24 histories published by Chung Hwa Book Company have long been an essential material for the study of ancient Chinese history, and we have been serving the academic community for a long time, but we also hope that more non-professional readers can understand it and make use of it. Let such a legendary history book that has lasted for more than 2,000 years and condensed the painstaking efforts of thousands of scholars can enter the life of every Chinese in a more vivid form and with a more rigorous attitude. So, at the beginning of 2024, we did the following:
01 Invite heavyweight readersRead sentence by sentence, easy to understand
Tan Musheng is a doctoral student at the Chinese Academy of History, and the chief planner of the audio and book series of "Chinese General Education Master Classes". He has published monographs such as "The Queen Mother's Journey to the West" and "Witch Gu Chao Chang'an", and the editor-in-chief of "The Story of Civilization". Mr. Tan has a deep research in the field of historical deconstruction, and also has rich experience in reading "Historical Records". Over the next four years, Mr. Tan will use:Updated every Mondayand all readers and friends to start a "arduous" "Long March of Historical Records", select classic articles, select the achievements of historical annotators and critics of the past dynasties, and lead readers to read word by word. Clarify the meaning of the text, sort out the relationship between the characters, and deconstruct the historical clues. The content of the intensive reading strives to be easy to understandReaders who do not have a basic knowledge of ancient Chinese can also participate
This is the way we read intensively when we were in college, and it is also the teaching method of "teaching people to fish", through the intensive reading of the classic chapters, all the articles of the "Historical Records", and even most of the documents of Chinese history, you can read them independently.
02 Invite senior scholars to helpProfessional blessing, deeper understandingWe have invited a number of senior scholars in the study of historical records to hold special activities from time to time, select topics, and provide readers with closed-door explanations and Q&A from professional and authoritative perspectives with a rigorous academic attitude. 
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Chen Zhenghong is a professor at the Institute of Ancient Books, Fudan University.
Guo Yongbing is a professor in the Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature at Fudan University. Li Lin is an associate professor at the Department of History and the Center for Ancient Chinese History at Peking University. Su Peng is a professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing Normal University. Xu Jianwei is a professor at the School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of Chinese. More Specialists are unlocking. Presumably, readers and friends are no strangers to these experts, who are either the main members of the revision team of the school-based "Historical Records" or experts in the field of historical records research, and have written a lot. In the future, we will unlock more scholars and bring you a rich and fulfilling "feast of knowledge" of historical records.
03 All-round operation guarantee
The project team of Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd. cooperated with Bohong Bookstore to provide whole-process support in terms of paper book delivery, online learning, offline activities, community services, and student assistance tools.
2024 start
Classical history is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation, and everyone needs to have the ability to find the answer to the present from the historical context. Reading the classics is not just a name, only after reading and understanding can you truly feel the value of it.
We hope that such a plan, which seems a bit "clumsy" in today's environment of knowledge fast food all over the Internet, can be held for a long time, and "Historical Records" is just the beginning. Let's call it the "Historical Records" chapter of the "Chinese Classics National Reading Program"!
Detailed arrangement
Every year, there are readingsStand-alone themesYou can either make a big ambition and set yourself a long-term plan and subscribe to the full version for all four years, or you can subscribe to the topics of the year that interest you. Of course, we recommend,Book for a year first and see if you can keep learning.
It's a bold plan.
Such a long project cycle.
It's not just because Chung Hwa Book Company has confidence.
All the more because. There are no shortcuts to reading ancient books.
Four years.
Are you willing to give yourself a commitment?