Twenty-four histories, the floorboard of twenty-four historical books written by ancient dynasties in China, are regarded as orthodox historical books by past dynasties, so they are also called "official history". It began in the legendary Yellow Emperor (about 2550 BC) and ended in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1644), with a total of 32 13 volumes and about 40 million words. It was written in a unified biographical style combining biographies and biographies.
According to the copyright page of Traditional Chinese Characters Finishing Edition published by Zhonghua Book Company, the number of words in the volume is as follows:
1. Historical Records, 2006 edition, 235 1000 words.
2. Hanshu (2002 edition), 2.7 million words.
3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, 2003 edition, 1006000 words.
4. The Book of Later Han Dynasty (2003 edition), 2309000 words.
5. Song Shu (version 1983)1400,000 words.
6. The Book of Southern Qi (2003 edition), with 603,000 words.
7. Shu Wei (2006), 1 140000 words.
8. Liang Shu, 2006.53 million words.
9. Chen Shu 1972 edition, 30 1000 words.
10. The Book of Northern Qi (1983 edition) has 420,000 words.
1 1. Zhou Shu (2003), 547,000 words.
12. The Book of Jin 1974, 1880000 words.
13. Sui Shu, 2002, 108000 words.
14. History of the South, 2003 edition, 1 160000 words.
15. History of the North, 2003 edition, 19 10000 words.
16 Old Tang Book 1975 edition, 3,089,000 words.
17. Old Five Dynasties History 1976 edition, 1 173000 words.
18. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty (1975 edition), with 3,696,000 words.
19. History of the New Five Dynasties (1974 edition), with 532,000 words.
20. Liao history 1974 edition, 900,000 words.
2 1. History of Jin 1975 edition,1650,000 words.
22. The History of the Song Dynasty (version 1985) is 8 137000 words.
23. History of the Yuan Dynasty (1997 edition), 2667000 words.
24. Ming History (1974 edition), with 6.05 million words.