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What books can I read to understand Chinese historical dynasties?
1, Five Thousand Years Up and Down: written by Lin Handa, a famous modern linguist and educator, tells the true history of China from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Revolution of 1911. It is an excellent historical reading that integrates the development history of China, major historical events and celebrity profiles;

2. Zi Tong Zhi Jian: A multi-volume chronological history book edited by Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes, which took 19 years to complete. Mainly based on time and events, it began in the 23rd year of Zhou Weilie (403 BC) and ended in the 6th year of Xiande, Zhou Shizong (959 AD), covering the history of 16 Dynasty (AD 1362 AD).

Historical Records is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a famous historian in the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in the history of China, and it is listed as the first of the "Twenty-four History", which records the history of four years and more than three thousand years from the legend of the ancient Yellow Emperor to the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

4. Twenty-four histories: Twenty-four histories are the general name of twenty-four historical books written by China in ancient times. They started from 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.