(2) The Historical Records is also the first of the first four histories.
About the author: Mr. Sima Qian (BC 145-90) was a historian, thinker and writer in the Western Han Dynasty. Zi Zichang, Zuo Yiren, was born in xia yang (now Luocheng Town, Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province). His Historical Records (formerly known as Taishi Gongshu) is the first biographical general history in the history of China and one of the most famous classical works in ancient China. It is listed as the first of the twenty-four histories, which records the history of * * 3,000 years from the time of the Yellow Emperor in ancient legend to the year of the founding of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. The first four histories, together with the History of the Later Han Dynasty, the History of the Later Han Dynasty and the History of the Three Kingdoms, were praised by Mr. Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians" and "the poem without rhyme", and by Mr. Liang Qichao as: "The list of historical records is borrowed from others, and the pen of historical records can be vivid, and the narrative of historical records is also. All philosophers must read. "