Records of characters experience's works are called biographies, among which the works with strong literariness are biographical literature. The basic characteristics of biographical literature are: taking people in history or real life as the description object, the main characters and events written must conform to historical facts, and fiction is not allowed. In terms of local details and minor characters, we can use imagination or exaggeration to carry out certain artistic processing, but this processing must also conform to the specific logic of the character and life. At this point, it is different from the novel. The life experiences of the characters written must be quite complete. At this point, it is different from reportage, close-up of people and so on. It must write more vivid characters, more vivid plots and language, which has certain artistic appeal. In this respect, it is different from ordinary biography. Biographical literature generally adopts the form and technique of prose, and some are close to novels.

This style has a long tradition in China. Ancient biographical literature generally includes two types, one is historical biography literature, and the other is miscellaneous biography literature. Sima Qian was the first writer to write a historical biography. His biographies of historical figures are almost all excellent biographical literature works, and some biographies of historical figures have great artistic charm. The biographical style centered on character description advocated by Sima Qian became the standard style of official history in later generations. Ban Gu's History of Han Dynasty, Chen Shou's History of the Three Kingdoms, Ye Fan's History of Later Han Dynasty, Shen Yue's Book of Song Dynasty, li yanshou's History of North and South, Ouyang Xiu's Book of New Tang Dynasty, etc. , all contain some excellent historical biographical literature chapters. Mixed biographical literature includes all biographical works except historical biographies, such as inscriptions, biographies and autobiographies. This kind of works appeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties, but its development and prosperity were mainly after the Tang Dynasty, especially in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Other writers include Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Song Lian, Gu, Huang Zongxi and He Quan. Essays are often beyond the reach of official history, and the writer's feelings and tendencies are more vivid and intense, with many wonderful chapters. There are biographies of women, sages and nobles, biographies of eminent monks, cases of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, and records of national life. More works have been compiled into various collections.

In modern times, formal history books and personal biographies gradually separated; After the May 4th literary revolution, literary creation became independent from ordinary literary works-the relationship between history, biography and literature changed obviously, and biographical literature also evolved from traditional genre to modern style. Because of the need for new exploration, and because few new literature writers specialize in creating such marginal works, biographical literature has been relatively silent for a period of time. Zhang Zhuan, a scholar of literature and history, is recognized as a masterpiece of this period. In addition, autobiographies such as Lu Xun's Autobiography, Before and After Anyway, Ten Years of Creation and Spring and Autumn Period of Revolution can also be regarded as biographical works. After the founding of New China, with the prosperity of memoirs and biographies, this situation has changed, and some influential works have come out one after another, and biographical literature has a tendency to prosper; Especially the biographical literature works of some heroes and model figures (such as Wu Yunduo's "Give Everything to the Party", etc. ) have become widely circulated young books. People, biographies of celebrities and other publications often publish biographical literature.

To look at history, we must first have a historical perspective. For example, we can't judge a historical figure by our current values and world outlook, otherwise any emperor, no matter how outstanding his achievements, will become a feudal scum. Yue Fei fought against Jin and the army of another regime. Therefore, he can only be a hero of the Song Dynasty, which has nothing to do with the Chinese nation, but a hero of the Han nationality at most.

People study history in order to understand the road they have traveled and use it as a reference for progress.