What books are there to record historical facts in ancient times?

China's history books are numerous and varied, which can be roughly divided into the following categories. Official history: A historical book that records the achievements of emperors, the history of dynasties, biographies of people, economy, military affairs, culture and geography by biographies and chronicles, which is called official history. Such as the so-called twenty-four histories. Except for a few personal writings (such as Sima Qian's Historical Records, Ye Fan's History of the Later Han Dynasty, Chen Shou's History of the Three Kingdoms and Ouyang Xiu's History of the New Five Dynasties), most official histories are compiled by officials. Other history: mainly refers to historical books that record historical facts of past dynasties or generations except chronological and biographical styles; Created by famous scholars, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish it from miscellaneous history. For example, Hanshu Jinshu Chunqiu Miscellaneous History: It only records the whole story, an instant experience or a private record of a family, and it is an anecdote history book. Unofficial history: Historical books written by the people are different from the official history. History of barnyard grass: usually refers to historical records that record customs, folk trivia and old news, such as Song Barnyard Grass Banknote written by Pan Yongyin in Qing Dynasty and Qing Barnyard Grass Banknote written by Tsui Hark in modern times. Sometimes it is also used to refer to "unofficial history".

Edit the classification of this history book.

Classify according to style

Biography: Biographical history books were first seen in Historical Records of Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty. They give priority to biographies and describe the emperor 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. Another example is Hanshu. There are some official histories that have no books or records, such as Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Chronicles are written in the order of year, month and day, with the year and month as the longitude and the facts as the latitude, such as Zuo Zhuan and Zi Tongzhi Jian. Chronicle: 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. Country style: Country style history books are written in Mandarin. Country history books are historical essays written by some countries. It contains the history of many countries. For example, The Warring States Policy falls into this category.

Classification by time and space

General history: Historical books that describe the historical facts of various times coherently are called general history, such as Historical Records written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty. Because he recorded the historical facts that lasted more than 3,000 years from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Chronicle: A historical book that records the history of a generation is called the Chronological History, which was founded in Han Shu in the Eastern Han Dynasty by Ban Gu. The twenty-four histories belong to dynastic history except Historical Records. National style: history recorded separately by country. For example, the warring States policy. In addition, there are historical books that record the history of various specialized disciplines, such as economic history, ideological history, literary history, historiography history and so on.

The type of editing this biographical history book.

This chronicle is a brief history of emperors compiled in chronological order, which records the center of words and deeds of emperors, as well as political, economic, military, cultural, diplomatic and other major events at that time. A table is a form composed of people and events. A book is a special edition about various laws and regulations and some natural social phenomena. Family is used to record the activities of governors and important people in history. Biography, mainly biographies of people.