What are the styles of history books? What are their masterpieces?

1. Rural style is a style that narrates historical events by country. For example, Mandarin and Warring States Policy are all books on national history.

2. Chronological style is a genre of traditional history books in China. Taking time as the center and arranging historical facts by year, month and day is the earliest and simplest method of compiling history. For example, Chunqiu and Zitongzhi Bamboo Slips are both chronological history books.

Biography is a genre of China's traditional history books, which narrates historical facts centering on biographies of people (biographies of emperors are listed in front of books, biographies of other people are called "records" for people under special circumstances, records of systems, customs and economies are called "records", and historical events are arranged in tables as "tables")? . ? For example, Historical Records, History of Han, History of Later Han and History of the Three Kingdoms are all biographical history books.

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There are six styles of history books: (1) Chronological style: chronological related historical events, such as Zuo Zhuan. (2) Biography: reflecting historical events by describing the activities of characters, such as historical records. (3) Chronicle: Focusing on events, the relevant thematic materials are brought together. Originated from Yuan Shu in the Southern Song Dynasty. For example, Yuan Shu's History as a Mirror. (4) National style: history recorded separately by country. For example, the warring States policy. (5) General history: an uninterrupted narrative of ancient and modern historical events, such as Historical Records. (6) dynastic history: record the history of a certain period or a certain dynasty, such as Hanshu. The above six styles of history books are classified according to different standards. In fact, the same history book may belong to several different styles of history books at the same time. For example, Historical Records belongs to biographical style and general history; The History of the Three Kingdoms belongs to biographical style, national style and dynastic history.

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Baidu encyclopedia entry? History book style