1. Chronological style-a genre edited by history books. Chronological history books record historical events according to the year number of the living emperor (that is, in chronological order). Masterpiece: Zi Tongzhi Jian (edited by Sima Guang in Song Dynasty, which is the most influential one in the existing chronological history books in China). In addition, chronological history books include The Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucius and Three Biographies of the Spring and Autumn Annals: Zuo Qiuming's Zuo Zhuan (also known as Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals), Yang Gongzhuan of the Spring and Autumn Annals, and Gu Liangzhuan of the Spring and Autumn Annals.
2. National style: taking the country (host country) as the main body of records, that is, recording history by country classification. (* * * 2) The earliest Mandarin was written by Zuo Qiuming in the Spring and Autumn Period; The better one is the Warring States Policy compiled by Liu Xiang in the early Han Dynasty (the masterpiece of national history books).
3. Biography-a form of history books, which narrates historical facts in the form of biographies. That is, to record history with the activities of characters as the center is to establish biographies for characters, which is the famous book Historical Records. For example, The History of the Three Kingdoms and Historical Records are biographical. Historical Records is the first biographical general history in the history of China.
4, dynastic history style-history books with dynasties as boundaries. This style originated from Ban Gu, a historian in the Eastern Han Dynasty. His book Hanshu describes the history of the Western Han Dynasty from the first year of Gaozu (206 BC) to the fourth year of Emperor Wangmang (23 years) for 230 years. Of the twenty-five histories, except Shiji, which is a general history, the other twenty-four histories belong to this style.
Among them, History of the South, History of the North and History of the Five Dynasties include several dynasties and still belong to the category of dynastic history. Chronological and chronological history books restricted by dynasties also belong to dynastic history. The history of Qin and Han dynasties and the history of Sui and Tang dynasties written by modern people also belong to the category of dynastic history.
5. The Chronicle of Doomsday is an event-centered genre of writing history. Together with chronological style and biographical style, it is called the three ancient historical styles. Chronology of the Last Years is a special article, which concentrates on scattered materials in time and leisure, and has the advantages of both chronological and biographical style. The notes are detailed and easy to read. It was founded in Yuan Shu's History as a Mirror in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Early history books
They all exist in the form of chronicles, and the chronicles of bamboo books unearthed in central Hebei during the Taikang period of Jin Dynasty are also chronicles. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xun Yue wrote "Han Ji", which created a chronicle. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Sima Guang wrote Zi Tong Zhi Jian, which lasted from the 23rd year of Zhou Weilie (403 BC) to the 6th year of Zhou Shizong's showing virtue in the Five Dynasties (959 BC). The advantage of chronological style is that it is convenient to inspect the specific time of historical events, understand the relationship between historical events, and avoid duplication of narrative. The success of Zi Tong Zhi Jian initiated the climax of chronicle writing.
Chen Yinque once said: "China historiography flourished in the Song Dynasty." . Chronological style became popular, resulting in outline style and chronological style. Liang Qichao thought: "Gai Ji's biography is mainly about people, the chronicle is mainly about years, and the chronicle is mainly about events." The reason why my husband asked for monuments is that it is useful to learn ancient times, and it is important. "