During the Three Kingdoms period, society has always called it "three histories". History of the Later Han Dynasty and History of the Three Kingdoms, Historical Records and History of the Han Dynasty are collectively called "the first four histories".

Later, "Ten History" (that is, the history books of Three Kingdoms, Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and Sui) and "History of Thirteen Dynasties" (Ten History plus Historical Records, Hanshu and Houhanshu) appeared.

In the Song Dynasty, on the basis of the thirteen histories, the history of the South, the history of the North, the book of the New Tang Dynasty and the history of the New Five Dynasties were added, forming the seventeenth history.

In the Ming Dynasty, History of Song Dynasty, History of Liao Dynasty, History of Jin Dynasty and History of Yuan Dynasty were added, which were collectively called "Twenty-one History".

In the early years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the History of Ming Dynasty was published, and together with the previous history, it was named Twenty-two History. Later, the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty was added as Twenty-three History. Later, the History of the Old Five Dynasties compiled from Yongle Dadian was also included in the official history, which was decided by Emperor Qianlong and collectively called the Twenty-four History of King James. The Twenty-four History of King James, which was carved in Wuying Hall from four to forty-nine years in Qianlong, is the most complete large-scale collection of China's ancient official history. Twenty-four histories are the general name of twenty-four official histories in ancient China.

Twenty-four histories: Historical Records (Sima Qian, Han Dynasty), Han Shu (Ban Gu, Han Dynasty), Han Shu (Ye Fan, Southern Song Dynasty), History of the Three Kingdoms (Chen Jinshou), Jin Shu (Ling Xuan, Tang Fang), etc. ) and Song Shu (Nanyue). Zhou Shu (Tang Linghu Defen et al. ), (etc. ), southern history (life extension), northern history (life extension), old Tang book (later Shao), etc. ), New Tang Book (Song Ouyang Xiu, Song Qi

192 1 year, President Xu Shichang of the Republic of China ordered the New Yuan History (written by Ke Shaowen) to be included in the official history, and together with the twenty-four histories, it was called the twenty-five history. However, the New Yuan History was not included in most places, but the Draft of Qing History was listed as one of the twenty-five histories, or both books were included in the official history, forming the twenty-six histories.