What are the famous historical books in ancient China?

History books Ancient history books refer to ancient books that specifically record history.

Types of History Books There are many volumes and types of history books in my country, which can be roughly divided into the following five types.

Official history: A history book that records the achievements of emperors, dynasty history, biographies of characters, economy, military, culture, geography and other aspects in the form of biographies and chronologies is called official history.

For example, what is commonly called the Twenty-Four Histories.

Except for a few personal writings (such as Sima Qian's "Historical Records"), most official histories were compiled by officials.

Miscellaneous history: a history book that only records the beginning and end of an event, a momentary experience or a family's private notes.

Bihisi: Mainly refers to historical books other than chronicles and biographies, miscellaneous records of past dynasties or the history of a generation, and are sometimes difficult to distinguish from miscellaneous histories.

Unofficial history: A privately written history book that is different from official history.

Barnyard history: usually refers to historical books that record the customs of Luxiang, folk trivia and old news, such as "Song Barnyard Chao" written by Pan Yongyin in the Qing Dynasty, and "Qing Barnyard Chao" written by Xu Ke in modern times.

Sometimes it is also used to refer to "unofficial history" in general.

The style of history books: biographical history books were founded in the "Historical Records" written by Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty. It centers on biographies, using "benji" to describe emperors; using "family" to describe princes, feudal states and special figures; using "tables" to systemize chronology,

Lineages and people; use "books" or "zhi" to record regulations and systems; use "biographies" to record people, nations and foreign countries.

All revisionist histories have taken this as a model.

Another example is "Han Shu".

Chronicle style: Chronicle style history books are written in the order of year, month and day, with the year and month as the longitude and the facts as the latitude. For example, "Zuo Zhuan", "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", etc. all belong to this category.

Chronicle style: "Tongjian Chronicles" created by Yuan Shu in the Southern Song Dynasty.

The characteristic of this genre is that historical events are used as the outline, and important historical events are listed separately and divided into independent chapters. Each chapter is written in the order of year, month and day.

General history: A history book that coherently describes the historical facts of each era is called a general history. For example, Sima Qian's "Historical Records" of the Western Han Dynasty can also be called a general history.

Because he recorded historical facts that spanned more than three thousand years from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Dynasty history: The history books that record the history of a dynasty are called dynasty history, which was founded in the "Book of Han" written by Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Except for "Historical Records", the rest of the "Twenty-Four Histories" are chronological histories.

National style: history narrated separately by country.

Such as "Warring States Policy" and "Three Kingdoms".

In addition, there are also history books that record the history of various specialized disciplines, called special histories, such as economic history, intellectual history, literary history, etc.

The genre of ancient history books is a brief history of the emperors compiled in chronological order, focusing on recording the words and deeds of the emperors, as well as the political, economic, military, cultural, diplomatic and other major events at that time.

Tables are used to describe characters and events in the form of tables.

The book is a special collection about various regulations and systems as well as certain natural and social phenomena.

Aristocratic family is used to record the activities of princes, feudal states and important figures in history.

Biographies, mainly biographies.