The twenty-four histories include Historical Records, History of Han, History of Later Han, History of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Jin, Book of Song, Book of Nanqi, Liang Shu, Book of Chen, Book of Wei, Book of Beiqi, Book of Zhou and History of Nan.
Every country in the world has its own history, and books that record its emergence, development and evolution are called history books. However, there has never been a complete and self-contained set of history books in a country with the longest recording time and compilation age, which is commonly called "Twenty-four History". It is the general name of 24 famous historical books in China history. Including: Historical Records, History of Han, History of Later Han, History of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Jin, Book of Song, Book of Southern Qi, Liang Shu, Book of Chen, Book of Wei, Book of Northern Qi, Book of Zhou, Sui Shu and History of Southern China. Among them, Historical Records was compiled in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (140 to 87 years ago), and the Ming history was written in the early years of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (1736 ~ 1795). The whole compilation process lasted more than 1800 years.
The chronicle of Twenty-four Histories began with the legendary Yellow Emperor and ended in the 17th year of the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1644), which lasted more than 4,000 years, including several historical periods of clan commune system, slavery and feudalism in China history. Its own system records the great historical process of the Chinese nation and is extremely rare in the world.
The economic historical materials in Twenty-four History are very considerable. In addition to the special records in the chronicle, some imperial edicts and biographies of ministers in this century have reflected the land system, tax policy and coin regulations in different degrees. If scattered historical materials are collected in different categories, it will be of great benefit to the study of the history of economic development.
Historically, there were three versions of the complete set of Twenty-four History: the engraving of Wuying Hall in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, the local edition of the engraving by five publishing houses in Jinling, Huainan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Hubei in the late Qing Dynasty, and the patchwork edition photocopied by the Commercial Press before liberation. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), under the care of the older generation such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, from 65438 to 0959, China historians began to sort out Twenty-four Histories. By 1978, The Twenty-four History has been published by Zhonghua Book Company. Punctuation, segmentation and collation in the new edition of Twenty-four History have corrected many mistakes in the old edition, such as fallacies, omissions, development and inversion. , in order to facilitate more readers to turn over, search, search and read, and further play the role of this set of books. Except historical records, all history has textual collation. This is a great achievement in sorting out China's heritage, which has a great influence at home and abroad.