Books about the history of the Song Dynasty

1. The History of the Song Dynasty

The History of the Song Dynasty is one of the twenty-four histories, which is included in the category of the official history of the History Department of the Siku Quanshu. It was compiled at the end of the Yuan Dynasty in 1343 under the auspices of Prime Ministers Tetu and Alutu.

The History of the Song Dynasty was compiled at the same time as the History of the Liao Dynasty and the History of the Jin Dynasty, and the book contains forty-seven volumes of the main chronicle, one hundred and sixty-two volumes of records, thirty-two volumes of tables, and two hundred and fifty-five volumes of biographies, and four hundred and ninety-six volumes of ****, about five million words, which makes it the most voluminous of all the twenty-five histories, and the largest of all the official histories.

2, "song history chronicle of the end"

"Song history chronicle of the end", broken chronicle of the body of history. One hundred and ninety-nine volumes, following the "Tongjian Jishu Benwei", with the genre of Jishu Benwei, described the Song Dynasty (960-1279), the general outline of the history of the three hundred and nineteen years and the important events of society.

Chinese Book Bureau in the original version of the premise of the appearance of the reference to other historical materials of the Song dynasty, the use of other school and school, the previous version of the errors in a large number of proofreading, so far, can be said to be a good book. This book is readable, interesting narrative, clear point of view, the historical narrative is well organized, the book is arranged by time, the historical evolution of a clear vein.

3, "the details of the Song Dynasty"

"The details of the Song Dynasty" is "the details of Chinese history" series of the Song Dynasty part, but also the set of series of the most good-looking one of the books, he divided the entire history of the Song Dynasty into a number of important events, with a story of the entire history of the Song Dynasty strung together, the genre is similar to the "Chronicle of the End", very readable. Very readable.

4. Living in the Song Dynasty

Wu Hook is a popular historian who specializes in writing about the history of the Song Dynasty. He has published several history books about the Song Dynasty, and this is one of them, which contains a lot of details about the social ecology of the time, and is a very easy and nice read. However, the author seems to be very much in love with the Song dynasty, and his writings give too much credit to the Great Song, so it needs to be read better in conjunction with other books.

5, "Song Dynasty Prices Study"

"Song Dynasty Prices Study" is a purely academic book, which may not be easy to read for general enthusiasts. But if you read on, you will find too much interesting gossip, and word for word. This book is organized on the Song dynasty food, real estate, clothing, carriage and other aspects of the price records, and the income and expenditure of people from all walks of life, is simply a Song dynasty life dictionary.