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What are the seemingly understated but cruel words in the history books?
There are the following seemingly understated but cruel words in the history books:

1, clan extinction, clan extinction, clan extinction.

In feudal society, monarchical power was supreme, and ancient rulers regarded human life as dirt and always implicated others. The phrase "genocide" seems to be an understatement, but after careful reading of historical materials and careful tasting, there are countless bloody lives behind it.

2. "Kanto locusts rise and fly to Dunhuang in the west"

It seems that it is only written that locusts are raging in Kanto, but in fact, locusts are flying all over the sky. After the locusts covered the sky, there was nothing left in the crops of the common people's fields and there was no harvest. What these people have to face is a great famine, that is, people eat Guanyin soil, and even hungry people eat each other. Behind this are countless hungry people struggling, and they are all bones!

3. Watching is a skeleton platform.

The bodies of all defeated enemies were piled up on both sides of the road, and then these bodies were tamped with soil to build a huge pyramid-shaped mound to show military merit. Historically, the Sui Dynasty failed to levy Koguryo three times, and the Koguryo rulers built the body of Sui Jun who died in battle into the "Jing Guan".

Genre summary of history books

1, chronological style

Chronological history books record historical events according to the year number of the living emperor (that is, in chronological order). On behalf of Zi Tongzhi Jian (edited by Sima Guang in Song Dynasty, which is the most influential one in China's existing chronological history books). In addition, chronological history books include Confucius' Spring and Autumn Annals, Three Biographies of Spring and Autumn Annals, Zuo Qiuming's Zuozhuan (also known as Zuoshi's Chunqiu Biography), Chunqiu Yanggong Biography and Chunqiu Guliang Biography.

2. Biography

Biography is a way to describe historical facts by biographies of people (the biography of the emperor is called Ji, the biography of ordinary people is called Chuan, the characters in special circumstances are called Zai Ji, the records of systems, customs and economy are called Zhi, and historical events are arranged in tables).

3, dynastic history

A history book with dynasties as its boundary, this genre originated from Han Shu written by Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and recorded the 230-year history of the Western Han Dynasty from the first year of Emperor Gaozu (206 BC) to the fourth year of Emperor Wangmang (23 years).