Record:
Generally speaking, it refers to the history books compiled by ancient folk individuals, which are different from the official history and opposite to the "official history". In ancient times, there was a saying of "official unofficial history", and an official was a small official who collected and recorded folk customs.
"History of Literature and Art" quoted Chun as saying that "polished rice is barnyard grass, and the street talks are very detailed. The king wanted to know the customs in the alley, so he set up an official to tell him. Tang Lugui's poem "Seeing beauty and seeing rain is rewarding": "Cherish yourself, stay in unofficial history, and don't hold the lonely city side." The poem "Duke Liang of Zhao" in the Yuan Dynasty says: "unofficial history is legendary in the land. " ?
This kind of record of alley customs, gossip and anecdotes is also called "Ming history", such as the Collection of Ming History, which Lu Xun praised many times. Lu Xun's Miscellaneous Notes is probably Chen Shi and so on. Barnyard grass is wild, and the history of barnyard grass is actually unofficial history.