Who are the famous historians in ancient China?

1, Zuo Qiuming (about 502 BC-about 422 BC), surnamed Qiu, first name, named Zuo Qiuming because his father was a Zuo historian.

Zuo Qiuming is the founder of traditional historiography in China. Historians regard Zuo Qiuming as the originator of China's historiography. Known as "the father of hundred schools of thought, the father of ancient Chinese." Zuo Qiuming's thought is Confucianism, which reflects the interests and demands of the people at that time.

2. Sima Qian (formerly known as145-no textual research) was born in xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi). Historians and essayists in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishiling, was imprisoned for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as the secretariat. He worked hard to complete the historical records he wrote, and was called Shi Qian, Tai Shigong and the father of history by the later Buddha.

Sima Qian studied under Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu in his early years, roaming around, learning about customs and collecting rumors.

3. Ban Biao (AD 3-54), a native of Fufeng Anling (now the northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province), was born in a powerful Confucian family in the Han Dynasty and was greatly influenced by family studies. I was good at the ancients since I was a child, and I studied with my brothers and sisters, and my name gradually became apparent.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, in order to avoid the battle of Tianshui, he attached himself to Xiao Wei and tried to persuade Xiao Wei to return to Han Dynasty and establish Wang Minglun, but failed.

4. Ban Gu (AD 32-AD 92), a native of Fufeng Anling (now northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi), was a famous historian and writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Ban Gu was born in a Confucian family, and his father Ban Biao and uncle Ban Si were famous scholars at that time. Under the influence of his father and ancestors, Ban Gu was able to return to literature at the age of nine, recite poetry and fu, and entered imperial academy at the age of sixteen, reading widely and being proficient in Confucian classics and history.

In the 30th year of Jianwu (54 years), Ban Biao died, and Ban Gu moved back to his hometown from Luoyang, the capital city. On the basis of Ban Biao's biography of Historical Records, he began to write Hanshu with his younger brother Ban Chao. Later, Ban Chao joined the army, and Ban Gu continued to write, which lasted for more than 20 years and was basically completed when he met junior high school.

5. Sima Guang (200910165438+1October 1086165438+1October +0), with the word Junshi, with the number pedantic. Politicians, historians and writers in the Northern Song Dynasty claimed to be descendants of Sima Fu in the Western Jin Dynasty.

In the first year of Song Renzong Baoyuan (1038), he was a scholar and moved to Longtuge with a bachelor's degree. In Song Shenzong, he opposed Wang Anshi's political reform and left the court for fifteen years. He presided over the compilation of Zi Tongzhi Jian, the first chronicle in the history of China.