Tell me about "I am from the Song Dynasty"

I am from Song Dynasty should be classified as a history book, because it is about Song Dynasty. Very popular, drawing on the meaning of fifteen years of Wanli, but the difference between the two is also obvious. This book is a bit like telling a story. The popularization of history books is conducive to public reading, but there is no denying the verbosity in language.

Since it is a history book, we should evaluate it from the perspective of history books, or take the fifteen years of Wanli as a reference. Many historical facts are quoted in Fifteen Years of Wanli. Based on this, the scene of fifteen years of Wanli is restored, which is very detailed and the characters are relatively three-dimensional It reads more like a novel, fascinating and fascinating. Huang Renyu, the author, said that he analyzed and studied historical events from the perspective of "grand historical view". But after his works were published, many people felt that his comments on historical events were too subjective. I am a native of Song Dynasty, and my evaluation of historical figures is single, with good and bad. For example, Zhao Kuangyin is basically completely positive, while Zhao Guangyi is completely negative. Compared with fifteen years of Wanli, there are more subjective things. And some viewpoints are not based on the analysis of historical materials, such as Yue Fei. The author believes that not killing Yue Fei, recovering lost territory and not establishing the Mongolian empire will affect the historical process of the whole Eurasia. Zhao Gou and Emperor Gaozong were blamed for Yue Fei's death, and Qin Gui was just a helper. The reason is that Yue Fei went straight to Huanglong, Qin Hui returned to Korea, and Zhao Gou lost the throne. These things are not impossible, but it is against the spirit of "recording" to judge by speculation. But this does not mean denying the book. The analysis of some historical events is supported by detailed historical materials, such as The Mystery of Song Taizu. As for the record of "the sound of an axe and the shadow of a candle", most of the history books are vague. The author boldly infers that Zhao Guangyi killed his brother and usurped the throne from the related words in Li Dao's novel Zi Zhi Tong Jian, a historian in the Southern Song Dynasty. Although there is no conclusion, there are also convincing reasons.

? Generally speaking, I'm from the Song Dynasty covers the 320-year history of the Song Dynasty and highlights the uniqueness of the Great Song Dynasty. Song is different from Han, Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the unified dynasty of China, it was a little different: the territory was small and the force was weak, but the economy was developed and the culture was prosperous. Why is this happening? Why did Song Dynasty create brilliant material civilization and spiritual civilization? This is not an easy problem to explain, and the author discusses it. Although it is a single point of view, it shows that he has his own thinking and has certain reference value for readers. In the book, you can also meet a group of elites of the Great Song Dynasty and know what a talent pool is. You can also feel what prosperity is on the Qingming River Map. We can understand why the four great inventions were in the Song Dynasty and how they promoted historical progress. We can also know the influence of the extensive use of coal in Song Dynasty on China's food culture, the significance to the ceramic industry and the influence of ceramics in the world since then. Song is a dynasty that has gone far away, and this book fascinates people with that dynasty.

Of course, there are also some fragmentary historical knowledge in the book, such as what is the relationship between Li Siyuan and Shi Jingtang, and why Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Tingmei have different names; There are also historical blueprints of Civet Cats for Prince, Yue Biography, Yang Jiajiang, Dragon Map Case-solving and so on. You can also find them in books. Although they have only a few words, they make reading interesting.

Around me, there are many people who don't know much about the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation, and even don't know the dynasty changes during it. This is a sad thing. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer scholars, fewer and fewer people are willing to read paper books, and fewer and fewer people can get into that pile of old papers to study history. It is not easy to change this situation, because reading history is different from reading other books, with difficult words and boring content. "I am from the Song Dynasty" tells a story, which makes people understand the distant dynasties in easy reading, which is a good thing.

I can read this book when I have time. Finally, I want to say an old saying: it is better to believe in books than to have no books. When reading history, you still have to think for yourself. If you swallow it all, you will fall into a misunderstanding.