Who hasn't read the histories of old? Today's deeds outshine the ancients'.
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history
Literally 'green history'. Before paper, scribes recorded events on strips of green bamboo (青竹简) - so 青史 came to mean 'the historical record'. The fixed phrase 名垂青史 ('name hangs in the green annals') means 'to go down in history'.
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Strongly literary. Reserved for solemn or rhetorical contexts - speeches, eulogies, and historical writing. Don't use it for ordinary 'history' (use 历史 instead).
