Twenty-four histories are the general name of twenty-four historical books written by China in ancient times. Because the writing style of Historical Records has been accepted as a formal historical writing technique in past dynasties, historical books written in biographical style like Historical Records are called "official history". It started from the legendary Yellow Emperor and ended in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, with 32 13 volumes and about 40 million words, and was written in a unified biographical style.
192 1 year, President Xu Shichang of the Republic of China ordered the New Yuan History to be included in the official history, and together with the twenty-four histories, it was called the twenty-five histories. However, the New Yuan History was not included in most places, but the Draft of Qing History was listed as one of the twenty-five histories. If both books are included in the official history, it will be formed.