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What's the difference between biographies of dynastic history and general history?

Chronological style is a genre of China's traditional history books. 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.

National style: taking the country as the unit, recording historical events respectively, such as Guoyu.

Biography: a form of East Asian history books, which takes biographies as the key link and time as the latitude to reflect historical events. The outstanding feature of biographical history books is to focus on a large number of biographies, which is a further combination of words and notes.

General history: General history can be understood as comprehensive history, that is, the history of a country or region or the world from the earliest civilization to the present.

History books bounded by dynasties. It was founded in Hanshu written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. Twenty-five histories belong to this style except Historical Records. Chronological and chronological history books are also dynastic history. The main feature of dynastic history is that it only records the history of a certain period or a certain dynasty.