First, Historical Records is based on a rigorous historical perspective, and there is not much emotional color of the author. Historical Records is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and the first biographical general history in the history of China. The book consists of 130 articles, divided into 12 biographies, 30 families and 70 biographies. Chronicles are specially used to record the emperor's political achievements, aristocratic families are used to record the deeds of vassal States and the rise and fall of princes and dignitaries, and biographies are specially used to record the deeds of some important people in history. These stories were collected after Sima Qian traveled all over the world.
Secondly, Historical Records is a good reading for studying history. Historical Records records the stories from the Yellow Emperor to the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Most of the stories are based on real history and are good reading materials for learning history. Historical Records is more prominent in describing some political abilities, and readers can also increase their political knowledge when reading this book, which is very useful for Machiavelli and other knowledge, so many scholars in ancient times like reading Historical Records of Sima Qian very much.
Third, there are many reasons recorded in history books. No matter what the story is or what the ending is, it will give us some truth. Even people who don't go to court don't need to study politics. You can also read historical records. From a short story, we can draw many great truths. This is also the reason why Historical Records is very sought after by some scholars. When we are studying Chinese courses, many classical Chinese texts are selected from the Historical Records, from which we can learn great truth. As one of the top ten history books, Historical Records is well deserved.