Historical Records written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty is divided into five parts: biography, biography and table book. The book Historical Records includes twelve biographies, thirty biographies, seventy biographies, ten tables and eight books.
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I. Discipline
All the records in this chronicle are emperors (except Xiang Yu, the overlord of the place of Chu). Ji is the outline of the whole book, which records the words and deeds of emperors according to the time of year and month. Five of them recorded the history of pre-Qin, followed by the five emperors of Xia, Yin, Zhou and Qin. There are seven articles recording the history of Qin and Han Dynasties, followed by Qin Shihuang, Chu Xiangyu, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Gao Zhi, Han Heng, Han Jingdi Liu Qi and Emperor Wudi.
Second, family.
The "aristocratic family" describes the historical relics of the vassal's seal of the country and the deeds of particularly important people. Such as Jin family, Chu family and family.
Third, biographies of people.
Biography is the life stories of other representatives except emperors and generals and the biographies of ethnic minorities. Such as Biography of Lao Fei, Biography of Sun Qi and Biography of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru.
Fourth, the table
"Table" lists the important events and years of lineage, people and historical events in tables.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) book
The Book describes the development of the system, involving the system of rites and music, astronomical military law, social economy, river geography and other aspects.