What are the genres of history books?

1. Chronology is a genre of traditional Chinese history books, which organizes relevant historical events in chronological order. The chronicle is centered on time and describes historical events in the order of years, months and days.

2. Chronicles, a form of East Asian history books, are biographies of people (biographies of emperors are called "ji", biographies of people in general are called "biographies", and biographies of people in special circumstances are called "zaiji"), and records of institutions, customs and traditions are written in the style of a traditional history book, which is organized in chronological order.

3, country-specific style to the country as a unit, respectively, recounting historical events. The Guoyu, China's first country-based historical record, is a part of the country's historical prose, starting with King Mu of the Western Zhou Dynasty and ending with Duke Lu in the early Warring States period, and contains the historical facts of Zhou, Lu, Qi, Jin, Zheng, Chu, Wu, and Yue over a period of about 427 years. It was compiled by the historians of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.

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Other styles of history books:

1. Broken history style, the history book with the dynastic dynasty as the broken limit.

This genre was founded by the Eastern Han historian Ban Gu, who wrote the Book of Han, a 230-year history of the Western Han Dynasty from the first year of Gaozu's reign (206 years ago) to the fourth year of Wang Mang's reign (23 years ago). Of the twenty-five histories, except for the Shiji, which is a general history, the rest of the twenty-four histories belong to this genre. Among them, the Southern History, the Northern History, and the History of the Five Dynasties, which encompasses several dynasties, still fall within the scope of interrupted histories.

The chronicles and the chronicles of the end of the body of the history of the dynasty as the limit also belong to the history of the broken generation. The history of the Qin and Han dynasties and the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties also belong to the scope of intergenerational history.

2, the chronicle of the end, is an event-centered genre of history.

It is known as one of the three major historical genres in ancient times, together with chronicle and biography. Chronicle of the end of the genre, each event a topic, for a special article, the dispersed material, according to the time to focus on the narrative. It has the advantages of both chronicle and biography, and it is convenient to read because it is more detailed. It was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Shu's "Tongjian chronicle of the end".

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