China history is very remote, the Chinese culture is very complicated, because of a lot of Occidentals do not understand the history and culture of China, cause some misunderstanding to China. Then, what’s the best method of understand Chinese history and culture? I think that is reading Chinese ancient famous book. There are 1200 extant Chinese ancient famous books, reading all is impossible; there are representative 100 among the 1200 Chinese ancient famous books; there are four classical, best and most representative famous books among the 100 Chinese ancient famous books, known as Chinese four great famous books.
No exaggeration to say, If can finish reading the China four great famous books, you can profound understand the Chinese history and culture. Everybody can see the civilization process of thousands years of China, historical picture scrolls will appear in the book!
However, everybody should realize that: Because of the language and culture difference between East and West, China four great famous books of translation to English that everybody buy can’t be very accurate in the bookstore, some part is deleted and distorted, for example, the Chinese poetry is unable to translate into English, if translate into English, then its existing charm and meaning will change. You can go to the bookstore to buy one and read, but seem to seldom sell this kind of book in the Occident bookstore, if you are really interested, can buy from the Internet. In fact Chinese four great famous books are widely known in China, nearly everybody has read.
China four great famous books:
Dream of Red Mansions (The Story of the Stone)
Three Kingdoms
Heroes of the Marshes
Journey to the West
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