History, or simply history, refers to the systematic recording, interpretation and study of past events and behaviors of human society. History can provide modern people with an understanding of the past as a reference for future actions. Together with ethics, philosophy and art, it is an important achievement of human spiritual civilization. The second meaning of history is to record and study past events, which is also called "historiography" or "historiography" for short. Subjects belonging to or closely related to history include chronology, compilation, genealogy, ancient philology, econometric history, archaeology, sociology and journalism. Look at history. People who record and study history are called historians, or simply "historians". In ancient China, they were called historians. Books that record history are called historical books, such as Historical Records and Hanshu, which can be roughly divided into two categories: official revision and folk publication. "History" in a broad sense can refer to all the events that happened in the past, not necessarily related to human society. In philosophy, history in this sense is called historical ontology, such as the history of the universe, the history of the earth, the history of birds and so on. The narrow sense of history must be based on written records, that is, the history after the appearance of words is considered history, and the history before that is called prehistory. History related to human society can also be called human history or social history, while past events divorced from human society are called natural history. Generally speaking, history only studies the former, that is, social history.

Seek adoption