History books refer to the books that specifically record history in ancient books, that is, the history department in the classification of the four major databases.
According to the style, history books are divided into the following categories:
1, biography
Biographical history books were founded by Sima Qian in the Historical Records of the Western Han Dynasty, focusing on biographies and describing emperors with biographies. Use "aristocratic family" to describe princes and special people; Use "table" to unify the age, lineage and figures; Record laws and regulations with "books" or "records"; Record people, nationalities and foreign countries with biographies. All previous dynasties used this as a model for compiling history, such as Hanshu. Some official histories have no books or records, such as The History of the Three Kingdoms.
2. Time style
Chronological history books take year, month and day as the order, year as the longitude and fact as the latitude, which easily reflects the relationship between various historical events in the same period. The method of chronicle recording history originated in China. For example, Zuo Zhuan and Zi Tong Zhi Jian both belong to this category. Chunqiu is the earliest chronological history book in China.
3, the chronicle of the original body
Yuan Shu's Zi Zhi Tong Jian was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty. This genre is characterized by taking historical events as the key link and listing important historical events separately. Each article is written in the order of year, month and day. There are nine ancient books in the chronicle.
4. Country style
Country history books were founded in Mandarin. Country history books are historical essays of some countries, which contain the history of many countries, such as the Warring States Policy.