2. Sima Qian (65438 BC+045 ~ 87 BC)

3. Ban Gu (32 ~ 92 years old)

4. Chen Shou (233 ~ 297)

5. Ye Fan (398 ~ 445).

6. Liu Zhiji (66 1 ~ 72 1 year)

7. Du You (735 ~ 8 12)

8. Sima Guang (10 19 ~ 1086)

9. Zhang Xuecheng (1738 ~ 180 1 year)

10, Liang Qichao (1873 ~ 1929)

Note: Some people think that the top ten historians in China should be Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty (who created the general history of biographies and was the father of China history), Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty (who perfected the general history of biographies and made it a dynastic history), Liu Zhiji in the Tang Dynasty (who was the first person to criticize history), Du You (who created the general history of chronicles), Sima Guang in the Northern Song Dynasty (who pushed the general history of chronicles to the extreme) and Yuan Shu in the Southern Song Dynasty (who chronicled history).