Chinese History MCP server

This is a small helper program that lets your AI look things up in nine classical Chinese texts, from the Analects and Zuozhuan to the Shiji and Zizhi Tongjian. Every answer comes with a citation showing which book, chapter and paragraph it came from. It is handy if you read or write about early Chinese history and want to check where a story actually appears.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about early Chinese history, like a person, a place, an event or a virtue. Your AI passes that question to this helper program running on your own computer. The helper searches its database of nine classical texts and finds matching passages. It sends back the passages along with a citation in the form book, chapter, paragraph, plus a short machine-written summary. Your AI then shows you that answer in the chat, and you can see exactly where each piece came from.

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What you can do with it

• Search across all nine books for events tied to a keyword, a book, a person or a type of event
• Look up a person and see their profile, what others said about them, and their relations to other people
• Find ancient stories tied to a modern place name, with the option to pick between same-named places
• Search by a quality such as loyalty or strategy and get events, people and stories with a quote from the original text
• See the exact book, chapter and paragraph behind every result so you can check it yourself
• Read a short machine-written summary alongside the original passages

Try asking your AI

• “What does the Shiji say about Xiang Yu?”
• “Find events about the battle of Red Cliffs across all the books”
• “Which stories are set in what is now Nanjing?”
• “Show me examples of loyalty in the Analects and the Zuozhuan”

What it gives back to you

You get a list of matching items, each with a citation showing the book, chapter and paragraph it came from. For people you also get a short profile, quotes from others about them, and their relations to other people. For places and qualities you get stories and quotes from the original text. Each result also carries a status label telling you whether it was reviewed by a person or generated and checked by machines.

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Who it's for

People who read, study or write about early Chinese history, from students to teachers to curious readers.