What are the three types of history books?

1. Chronological style is a genre of China traditional history books, which arranges related historical events in chronological units. Chronological history books take time as the center and record historical events in the order of year, month and day.

2. Biography is a form of East Asian history books, which narrates historical facts in the form of biographies of people (biographies of emperors are called "Ji", biographies of ordinary people are called "Biography", characters in special circumstances are called "Ji", records of systems, customs and economies are called "Ji", and historical events are arranged in tables.

3. The national system takes the country as the unit and describes historical events respectively. Guoyu is China's first national history book and a part of historical prose. It started in the west of Zhou Muwang and ended in Lu Daogong in the early Warring States period, including the historical facts of Zhou, Lu, Qi, Jin, Zheng, Chu, Wu and Yue for about 427 years. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was compiled into a book by Jin historians.

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Other styles of history books:

1, dynastic history style, history books limited to dynasties.

This style originated from Ban Gu, a historian in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His book Hanshu describes the history of the Western Han Dynasty from the first year of Gaozu (206 BC) to the fourth year of Emperor Wangmang (23 years) for 230 years. Of the twenty-five histories, except Shiji, which is a general history, the other twenty-four histories belong to this style. Among them, History of the South, History of the North and History of the Five Dynasties include several dynasties and still belong to the category of dynastic history.

Chronological and chronological history books restricted by dynasties also belong to dynastic history. The history of Qin and Han dynasties and the history of Sui and Tang dynasties written by modern people also belong to the category of dynastic history.

2. Chronicle is a genre of writing history centered on events.

Together with chronological style and biographical style, it is called the three ancient historical styles. At the end of the chronicle, each theme is a special article, which focuses on scattered materials in chronological order. It has the advantages of both chronological and biographical style, with detailed notes and easy reading. It was founded in Yuan Shu Zi Zhi Tong Jian in the Southern Song Dynasty.

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