1, history

Historical Records, formerly known as Taishi Gong Shu or Taishi Gong Gong Ji, is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian (Taishi Gong), who served as Taishi Order in the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, and records the history of China from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the early years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for 2,500 years. The book includes 12, 30 noble families, 70 biographies, tables 10, and 8 books, totaling 130, with more than 526,500 words. The manuscript of this book was lost at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and the oldest existing historical record is the manuscript of the Six Dynasties in Kozo Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The oldest complete history books in the world are Jing Ben and Shi Ji Ji Ji of the Northern Song Dynasty, which are now in the Institute of History and Language of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

2. Hanshu?

Hanshu, also known as Pre-Hanshu, is a historical work in ancient China. It was written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is the first biographical dynastic history of China. Following the slightly changed style of Historical Records, the book was changed to chronicle, biographies changed to biographies, biographies changed to record, and there was no family. The book consists of 12 biographies, 8 tables, 10 chronicles and 70 biographies, with a total of 100. It records the history of 229 years from the first year of Emperor Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC) to the fourth year of the Emperor of the New Dynasty (23 years). The language of Hanshu is solemn and neat, with many parallelism and elegant words and sentences, which is in sharp contrast with the plain spoken language of Shiji.

3. The Book of Later Han Dynasty

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty is a biographical history book that records the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was written by Ye Fan (398-445) during the Liu and Song Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties. This book is divided into ten chapters, eighty biographies and eight chronicles (eight chronicles were added from Sima Biao's Continued Han Shu), recording the history from the reign of Emperor Guangwu (25 years) to the abdication of Emperor Xianhan (220 years) 195 years.

4. Three Kingdoms?

The History of the Three Kingdoms is a historical fact of China written by Chen Shou, a historian at the end of the 3rd century, shortly after the end of the Three Kingdoms period. The History of the Three Kingdoms records the dynastic history of China in the Three Kingdoms period, and it is also one of the "first four histories" with the highest evaluation among the twenty-four histories. Later, Pei Songzhi, a historian in the Six Dynasties and the Liu and Song Dynasties, made a detailed annotation on the History of the Three Kingdoms with books about the Three Kingdoms circulated at that time.