Chapter 22 20. History

Often asked: introduce some books to young people.Always answer: Personal preferences may not necessarily meet the requirements of society for young people to read.Therefore, if you can avoid it, you can avoid it.A few years ago, I was asked to introduce the top ten best books, and the one proposed was "The Deer and Ding Tale".For this kind of person and this kind of thing, it is only appropriate to deal with it in the way of Uncle Zhan, so there is no need to repeat it. Two days ago, another reporter made such a request, repeatedly declined and failed, and proposed Jin Yong's novels, which can be used by middle school students to spend a summer vacation. Bookstore) and "Five Thousand Years of Stories" (Wu Yangbi, Mingchuang Publishing House).

Both sets of books tell the history of thousands of years in China in a way that makes readers interesting in their vivid writing style. People must know at least an outline of the history of their own nation, and reading these two sets of books can achieve this goal. The reason why I feel this is necessary is that in recent years, there have been many opportunities to talk to young people, and I have discovered a rather ironic phenomenon, that is, many people’s historical knowledge comes from historical dramas or historical novels, and they don’t know it. Those are not history, not only are they not, but they are very different from history.

Plays or novels with history as the background, of course, can be read, they are good-looking, and they are extremely good-looking, but you must know: they are plays or novels, not history. It’s okay to know nothing about history, but it’s almost black humor to regard drama and novels as a way to absorb historical knowledge. It’s ridiculous to treat "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as the history of the Three Kingdoms without knowing that there is "Three Kingdoms" almost?Sad? Therefore, those two historical works were put forward.Of course, it’s best to go directly to the Hanshu before and after Shiji, but the next best thing is to go back to the next summer vacation, at least you can know how much historical hypocrisy there is in novels and dramas, and you can learn a lot.

What's more, these two books are much better than crappy historical drama novels!