Three Emperors and Five Kings Era -- Volume 1 and Volume 2

Author: Wang Da Da
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a part of "The Great Way of China Collection · Illustrated Dictionary of Chinese Civilization," with the purpose of investigating and verifying the origins of the ancestors and the creation of civilization during the Three Emperors and Five Kings era of ancient Chinese history. It serves as the general outline of the Great Way of China. The author follows in the footsteps of Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian · Basic Annals of the Five Kings" and Xu Xusheng's "The Mythical Era of Chinese Ancient History." With the intention of exploring the changes between past and present, the relationship between heaven and humanity, the wonders of creation, and the depths of life, the author embarked on extensive travels, conducted field investigations, studied ancient pre-Qin texts, inscriptions on metal and oracle bones, cultural relics, and ethnic customs. Through exchanges with fellow scholars, the author achieved new insights and, in accordance with the chronological order of history, the lineage of ethnic groups, the succession of royal families, migration and development, and the trajectory of civilization, established a vertical chronological historical coordinate system. Additionally, the author examined ethnic fusion, bloodline assimilation and differentiation, and the spread of civilization across the four regions of the world, establishing a horizontal spatial historical coordinate system. This book presents an overview of the unified and layered ascent of the Chinese nation and its civilization.