Whose historical works completely broke the historical tradition?

After The Dream of Red Mansions came out, the traditional thinking and writing methods were broken.

A Dream of Red Mansions, the first of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is a novel written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty, also known as The Story of the Stone, Jinyuyuan and Re-evaluation of the Story of the Stone by Hongyan Zhai. This book is roughly divided into two versions: 120 Cheng Ben and 80 Fat Ben. The first eighty chapters of the new edition of Tongshu were collected according to Fat Book, and the last forty chapters were collected according to Cheng Shu, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, Anonymous, Cheng Weiyuan, Finishing".

A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, the family affairs of Jia's family and the leisure of boudoir as the main line, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, depicting the beauty of humanity and tragedy of lovers centered on Jia Baoyu and Jinling Twelve Chai. Through family tragedy, daughter tragedy and the protagonist's life tragedy, the crisis of the last days of feudalism is revealed.