2. Both of them belong to Twenty-four History, which records the historical overview of each dynasty in the form of biographies, biographies and notes. At the same time, it reflects the complex historical process of China with the rise and fall of Chinese dynasties as the framework;
3. Both Hanshu and Shiji have a fine tradition of biography for ethnic minorities. Among them, Hanshu expanded the Biography of Historical Records in Dawan into Biography of the Western Regions by using new historical materials, narrated the history of dozens of regions in the western regions and neighboring countries to supplement it, and supplemented a large number of historical facts after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
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Similarities and differences of narrative themes between Historical Records and Hanshu;
Narratively, Hanshu is characterized by paying attention to the systematicness and integrity of historical events, and striving to finish everything and explain it clearly. This provides great convenience for us to understand and study the history of the Western Han Dynasty. Up to now, anyone who studies the history of the Western Han Dynasty takes Hanshu as the basic historical data.
As far as genre is concerned. Hanshu and Shiji are biographical history books. The difference is that Historical Records is a general history from the legend of "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" to the end of the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. However, Hanshu is a dynastic history, which specifically describes the historical events in the Western Han Dynasty. This biographical genre of dynastic history is the creation of Ban Gu. This genre was adopted by the "official history" of later generations. This is Ban Gu's great contribution to China's historiography.
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