Is Historical Records the first historical book in China?

Historical Records is a great historical work by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, also known as Taishi Gong Gong Ji. As the first of the "Twenty-four Histories", Historical Records is one of the most famous classic works in ancient China, and it is called the "First Four Histories" together with the later Hanshu, Houhanshu and the History of the Three Kingdoms.

This is the definition of historical records.

What you said about China's first history book is too general, because there are many kinds of history books, such as:

China's first chronological history book was Zuo Zhuan?

China's first national history book was Mandarin?

China's first biographical history book is Historical Records.

China's first dating history book was Hanshu?

Therefore, Historical Records is not the first historical book in China, but its name is Historical Records, which is not a generic term.