Zizhi Tongjian

"Zizhi Tongjian", referred to as "Tongjian", is a famous Chinese classical chronicle [1]: 1. A long chronicle history book edited by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes and three million words. The author Sima Guang and his important assistants Liu Shu, Liu Tong, Fan Zuyu and others spent 19 years based on a large number of historical materials to write the intricate history from the Warring States Period to the Five Dynasties into their masterpiece.