1, Zhonghua Book Company Branch School.
This version is a classic version and is currently recognized as the "best version". Based on Jinling Bookstore, supplemented by three annotations: (Liu Song) Pei Jian's Collection of Historical Records, (Tang) Sima Zhen's Study of Historical Records, and (Tang) Zhang Shoujie's Justice of Historical Records. Punctuate each paragraph, with three notes at the end of each paragraph and numbers. Simplified horizontal arrangement.
2, the Song version is yellow.
The earliest version of the three notes is also the most complete version of historical records. (The so-called completeness is relative. Historical Records absorbed and revised many contents in the later inheritance. At the end of each article, there is a vernacular translation, which takes into account both academics and popularity.
3. (Japanese) Textual Research on Yanzi Longchuan Edition Notes of Historical Records Association.
Taking Jinling Bookstore as the base, it contains three notes; At the same time, more than 120 kinds of materials in Chinese and Japanese classics were consulted and edited. Among them, the pre-Song version of Historical Records circulated in Japan; The finishing results of Japanese scholars; After synthesizing various classics and adding my own research results, it is supplemented at the back of the three notes in the form of "textual research". In particular, the textual research on ancient and modern place names is quite powerful.
4. Full annotation and translation of vernacular historical records.
Editor did not specify, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Press. There are no three notes in the back of Jinling Bookstore. However, it has many merits: detailed annotations and smooth translation, especially absorbing the research results of modern history and archaeology, and making a lot of supplementary annotations on the basis of the previous three annotations. It is a good supplementary reference.