What are the fine traditions of ancient Chinese historiography? What are the lessons for the development of Chinese historiography today?

There are four fine traditions in ancient Chinese historiography:

1, Learning from Heaven and Man, and understanding the past and present

2, Using the past as a mirror, and making use of the past to benefit the world

3, Seeking truthful and direct writing, and calling the calligraphy not hidden

4, Virtue and knowledge as the first priority, and talent as the first and the most advanced

Its significance for the development of Chinese historiography nowadays is as follows:

1, From the ancient times in China, we have paid much attention to the role of borrowing and admonition for the historical heritage and writing history. Since ancient times, China has paid much attention to the role of historical heritage and history writing, so-called "using the past as a mirror" to play the role of historiography in the world.

2. In the history of the development of ancient Chinese historiography, historians have always paid great attention to the rise and fall of the country, showing full and deep political feelings. This political sentiment, most of the world as its starting point and destination.

3. Emphasizing the business and ideological cultivation of historians is a fine tradition of ancient Chinese historiography. According to Liu Zhiqi, a historian must have both historical talent, historical learning and historical knowledge. Later, Zhang Xuecheng added "historical virtue". Virtue, talent, learning and knowledge are the comprehensive requirements for the quality of historians, and thus it becomes the goal of historians and the standard for commenting on historians.

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Development of Ancient Chinese Historiography:

1. Pre-Qin Period: the emergence of ancient Chinese historiography.

Shangshu in the "Pan Geng", "Oath of the Pastor" and other chapters of the Yin, Zhou period recorded some major historical events, "Ya", "Ode" to reflect the Zhou room before the eastward migration of the social situation of the various stages of the history of the activities related to the fiefdoms, conquests, agriculture, etc., which, together with the Jinwen records, show a clear sense of historical consciousness.

2. Qin and Han Dynasties: The establishment of ancient Chinese historiography.

Political unification of the situation, the production of the corresponding historical masterpieces "Shiji" and "Book of Han", the former for the first chronicle of the general history, the latter for the first chronicle of the interrupted history, which laid the foundation for the development of ancient Chinese historiography. The historical theories of the schools in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty and the first interrupted chronicle written by Xun Yue at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Chronicle, are also important historiographical achievements of this period.

3. Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties: the development of ancient Chinese historiography.

The compilation of the 13 "official histories", including the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Book of the Jin Dynasty, the Book of the Song Dynasty, the Book of the Southern Qi Dynasty, the Book of the Liang Dynasty, the Book of the Chen Dynasty, the Book of the Wei Dynasty, the Book of the Zhou Dynasty, the Book of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Book of the Sui Dynasty, the Book of Southern China and the Book of Northern China, is a major achievement of historiography in this period. They accounted for more than half of the Twenty-four Histories.

4. The Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan Dynasties: the continued development of ancient Chinese historiography.

Sima Guang's Ziji Tongjian, Zheng Qiao's Tongzhi, and Ma Duanlin's Literature Tongkao represented new achievements in the writing of general histories in the three genres of chronicles, chronicles, and canonical systems; and Yuan Shuji's Tongjian jiyebenxian (The End of the Chronicle of the Tongjian Period) was the masterpiece of the chronicle-style history books.

5. The Ming and Qing Dynasties: the transmutation of ancient Chinese historiography.

Li Zhi's "collection of books", "continued collection of books", "book burning", "continued book burning", Gu Yanwu's "Day Knowledge Record", Wang Fuzhi's "reading the Tongjian theory", "Song", Huang Zongxi's "Mingyi yi yiqi", "Ming Confucianism case", "Song and Yuan case", Zhang Xuecheng's "literature and history of the general", etc., is the masterpiece of history in this period.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ancient Chinese Historiography