In the Southern Dynasties, Liang collected the similarities and differences of the historical books of the later Han Dynasty to annotate the model books, and extracted the records from Sima Biao's "Continued" and annotated them to supplement the model books. The sons, Li Xian, Zhang and Liu, wrote model books of notes, which are widely quoted and simply explained. After Li Xian and others' notes were published, Liu Zhao's notes were ignored and they were lost. The annotations of Sima Biao Zhi, except for the annotations of the second volume of Tian Wen Zhi and the fourth volume of Wu Xing Zhi, have basically been handed down. In the Qing Dynasty, Hui Dong wrote a supplement to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, with many original opinions. Since then, Wang Xianqian mainly focused on Huidong Notes, absorbed the achievements of various schools, compiled Notes on the Later Han Dynasty, and cleaned up the old notes.
The earliest existing engraving is Shaoxing edition of Southern Song Dynasty, with five volumes incomplete. The Commercial Press once added hundreds of volumes of Twenty-four History, and the missing five volumes were supplemented by other volumes. In addition, the Jigu Geben in Shi Mao in the Ming Dynasty and the Wuying Canon in the Qing Dynasty are also reliable old engravings. 1965, Zhonghua Book Company published a punctuation collation, which was based on Shaoxing edition of Southern Song Dynasty photocopied by Commercial Press, collated by Jiguge edition and Wuying Palace edition, and absorbed the previous research and collation results. It is a book of good quality.