In China, kings of all dynasties attach great importance to history, and special historians have recorded major events such as the rise and fall of dynasties and the changes in society.

After the dynasty changes, the new dynasty will also organize personnel to repair the history of the old dynasty, and will only be published and published after the official review and finalization.

Official historical books compiled by historians are called official history, also known as trustworthy history, and are the main basis for historians to clear away the fog of history and explore the truth of history in the future.

Of course, the things recorded in the official history may not be completely credible. Some things are "tagged by the respected ones" because they involve this dynasty, and sometimes they will pass by the Spring and Autumn styles, and even ignore the facts and beautify a certain dynasty by randomly. Such historical books will generally not be recognized by historians.

For example, the Qing Dynasty history draft made in modern times during the Republic of China, and the Qing Dynasty history written by some of the Eight Banners children left behind old and young people, beautifying the Qing Dynasty, which caused an uproar at that time, and almost everyone did not agree with this history. Therefore, this history can only be called the Qing Dynasty draft, not the Qing Dynasty.

Only historical books that can stand the test of time and are praised by historians of all generations will have more reference value.

If the official history records are not very detailed, or the records are not right in some places, then when studying the history of certain dynasties, some miscellaneous histories are needed as reference.

In addition to the royal historians, there are also people who study history among the people. The history they compile is called unofficial history, also called miscellaneous history. There may be nonsense, but there are also real things and have strong academic reference value.

But whether it is reliable history or unofficial history, there are exact dates and accurate locations, the reasons for the incident, as well as the political environment and the mark of the times, which are all reflected in the book very clearly.

If we follow the history of China from generation to generation, there will be basically no time for dynasties. Even if there are occasional vague years, the approximate time period will be marked in the book, and this vague time period will not be too long.

Looking at the historical classics of the world, only the Chinese historical records are as organized, with sources and accurate records of the age. For thousands of years, historical records have continued to this day.

In the West, before the sixteenth century, they had no history at all. All the history before the sixteenth century was basically contemporary history, that is, history of artificial fraud.

In fact, we can draw such a conclusion by thinking about it carefully.

Before the sixteenth century, the West was divided into countless small countries. They didn’t even have a calendar or a person who wrote history. Most importantly, they lacked the most important carrier of the text.

At that time, there was no paper in the West. They could only use parchment rolls to record important things. Parchment rolls were expensive and could never record too much. It is said that there was also a kind of papyrus, but papyrus was not actually paper, but a kind of grass leaf that could not be stored for a long time. The carriers that could be preserved for a long time, whether they were stone slabs or parchment rolls, could not be popularized on a large scale. Therefore, the things they recorded were extremely limited, and there were only a handful of them.

Because of the scattered and inconsistent recordings of things and the lack of calendar notes, this has led to extremely confusing history in the Western world.

In China, Guan Gong and Qin Qiong were a joke, but it happened from time to time in Western history. Even if it was a record of characters, there was no mark of the age, so they were unable to sort out the context of historical events.

In order to write things, the ancestors of China racked their brains and finally chose bamboo slips as the carrier tool for preserving text. However, the production process of bamboo slips is extremely complicated. The fonts on them are carved with tools and branded, and then connected with rubber bands. This is how bamboo slips are formed, which is the formed text carrier.

Confucius read the Book of Changes and said that "The Three Wonders of Wei Bian" means that Confucius read the book many times and was very addicted to it. He flipped through the rubber bands linking the bamboo slips. At that time, the carrier of the text was the bamboo slips that were branded and engraved.

There is another adjective called "history", which actually refers to one of the procedures of bamboo slips making, which later gradually evolved into "finished", and the meaning of the word has changed.

Because at the beginning, the letters were engraved on bamboo slips, and the procedures were complicated and extremely laborious, the ancients forced the most concise sentences to describe the most complex information. Therefore, all ancient predecessors were confusing and difficult to understand.

Why are ancient books so precious? Why are ancient people so difficult to borrow books? Isn’t it because these books are difficult to produce?

Later, the engraving of the bamboo slips became written with a brush, which reduced a lot of the process. The ancient predecessors gradually transformed into easy-to-understand classical Chinese. Then after the popularization of paper, ancient vernacular Chinese gradually appeared, until modern vernacular Chinese.

It can be said that the change in the narrative method of Chinese literature is closely related to the change in the text carrier. If the text carrier is not improved, any vernacular movement will be nonsense.

But even in China, a country like China, which was the first to find a suitable text carrier, there are still many classics that are difficult to preserve. There are many classics that are separated and some historical books are not complete, and later generations have to add, delete and repair them.

But the West didn’t even have bamboo slips at that time. How did they record the epic masterpieces that were millions of words?

Could it be that a sheep in the West could peel out a hundred sheepskins?

Or will their sheep sheep shed skin and shed one in a month?

Or, is it born into the brain in genetic genes?

Or does it mean that some people in modern times have mastered the ability to travel through time and space and go back to the past that they specifically recorded?

This is so unreasonable that no one with a brain will believe the truth of these things.

Some people say that "Homera's Epic" was sung by a shepherd named Homer. What a good guy, a illiterate storyteller, turned into the history of Westerners. The Athena and Poseidon in it were flying all over the sky, and they could become history books. This is simply terrible.

If history is determined in this way, the historical and historical source of China will start with the "Shan Hai Jing".

In particular, there is another very interesting phenomenon worth discussing, that is, these great Western historical masterpieces were all "discovered" around the 18th century.

So now the question is, when they discovered these things, in what way were these works preserved? Lambskin or papyrus? Or clay tablets?

Moreover, these things have never been recorded or legend before, but they suddenly appeared overnight. They are all arranged in an orderly and well-organized manner, more like Chinese history than Chinese history.

Although there must be fakes in Chinese history books, there are generally no differences in many major events. For example, the Spring, Autumn, Warring States, Qin and Han dynasties. The changes in these dynasties have detailed records of major events in the court and the humanistic forms of emperors and ministers at that time. There are basically no fakes. The fakes should be related to the private morality of the king. However, this has little impact on the entire history and will not delay the research and exploration of historical scholars, because there are unofficial history that can be regarded as supporting evidence.

However, the West cannot even consider the specific dynasty changes. Their history is all a mess, because the so-called noble children at that time were all illiterate, and the words could not be said to be lacking, but they could not be popularized at all. Even the nobles could not read. So who will record history?

Even if history is recorded and without the attention of the country, how can it be passed down?

In that case, how could they have history?

But now, a group of Chinese writers are holding a serious meeting to discuss the impact of Western history on Chinese culture!

Guo Dalu stood at the door of the conference, and the more he thought about it, the more he became, the more he laughed.

The laughter reached the venue, and many scholars turned to look at Guo Dalu, with curiosity on their faces. I wonder what kind of nerves Guo Dalu was.
Chapter completed!