Historical records were widely circulated in China, about after the mid-Eastern Han Dynasty. It began at this time to become the proper name of Sima Qian's works. Prior to this, historical records were referred to as Taishi Gong Shu, Taishi Gong Gong Ji and Taishi Gong Gong Ji. According to the textual research of known materials, Sima Qian's earliest historical book "Historical Records" is the Donghai Temple Monument written by Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, scholars attached great importance to historical records because of the rise of the ancient prose movement. At that time, famous essayists Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan especially praised Historical Records. Ouyang Xiu, Zheng Qiao, Hong Mai and Wang Yinglin after the Song and Yuan Dynasties, as well as the Gong 'an School in the Ming Dynasty and Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty, all appreciated the writing of Historical Records.