The annals of bamboo books, also known as Ji Zhong Ji Nian, Ji Wen Gu or Ji Zhong Shu. Because the original title of the book is unknown, the original book is bamboo slips, also known as bamboo slips, and the historical events recorded belong to chronological style, called chronology, which is generally called bamboo slips chronology. Chronology of Bamboo Slips is an ancient history book that was not allowed to be discovered by grave robbers in the second year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (28 1). This is a chronological history book. Because he was buried in the tomb of King Wei Anli (said to be Wei Xiangwang), he was able to avoid the destruction of the chaos in the late Qin Dynasty. It records the historical events from the legendary Xia Dynasty to Wei Xiangwang.

The chronicle of bamboo slips shocked historians because the historical materials it recorded were not only different in content, but also had different directions from those described in Historical Records. The chronology of bamboo slips describes bloody coups and military conflicts from Xia Dynasty to Warring States Period. For example, according to Records of the Historian, after Tai Jia of Shang Dynasty was imprisoned by Yi Yin for three years, Yi Yin saw Tai Jia turn over a new leaf and solemnly handed over the country to him. After the restoration of Taijia, he learned from a bitter experience and became a diligent and loving saint. However, the Chronicle of Bamboo Records has a different description of this: after Yi Yin exiled Tai Jia, he became king on his own. Seven years later, Tai Jia sneaked back and killed the usurper Yi Yin, leaving Yi Yin's sons Yi and Yi Fen to inherit the Yi family. However, the unearthed Oracle Bone Inscriptions shows that up to the end of Shang Dynasty, Shang Dynasty still insisted on offering sacrifices to Yi Yin, so the historical record of Bamboo Annals is in doubt.

This book was lost as early as the Han Dynasty. In 279 of the Western Jin Dynasty, the tomb of Wang Wei in present-day Henan Province was stolen and dug. While the grave robbers were arrested, a large number of bamboo slips were unearthed from the tomb. At that time, the state attached great importance to this matter, and the Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty appointed Xun Xu and He Yi, the secretariat, to be responsible for the translation of bamboo slips (because the seal scripts of Wei and Qin were very different). Bamboo slips are two feet four inches long, each with 40 words and each with 13 articles. After Zhou Pingwang moved eastward, he used the calendar of the State of Jin, and after the three families were divided into Jin during the Warring States Period, he used the calendar of the State of Wei. During this period, there were many political disturbances, such as the Eight Kings Rebellion, and Minister Heng was killed during the examination, which greatly hit the progress of sorting out, and Zuo Zuolang continued. Finally, the official in charge sorted out the part of the history book and named it Bamboo Chronicle.

Because Historical Records describes events in a biographical way, the appearance of bamboo chronology can be seen from another angle, such as "Tai Jia killed Yi Yin", "Wen Ding killed Li" and "* * * Bo Yu", which is very different from Historical Records. Another example is recorded in the bamboo book: "In the first year of Iraq, the sky was in Zheng, ...", which may refer to the total solar eclipse that occurred in the early morning of April, 1999, and thus we can infer the first year of Zhou Yiwang (some scholars have doubts about this statement). Wang Guowei pointed out in Notes on Chronology of Modern Bamboo Books that the solar eclipse in the sixth year of this century (776 BC) originated from the October in The Book of Songs Xiaoya and the solar eclipse in the New Tang Calendar, which was the chronological record of the solar eclipse in the Zhou Dynasty and the calculated result before the Tang Dynasty.

This set of bamboo books was compiled in the Jin Dynasty and lost in the Song Dynasty. Scholars in Qing Dynasty collected various quotations from historical books and reassembled them into a restored bamboo chronicle. This restored version of the bamboo annals is commonly known as the Annals of Ancient Bamboo Books. After Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, two volumes of the so-called Chronology of Modern Bamboo Books appeared. Because the source is unknown and the style is different from traditional bamboo books, bamboo books in Yuan and Ming Dynasties have always been dismissed as fake books. However, some scholars have affirmed the authenticity of the chronicles of modern bamboo books. For example, Xia Hanyi, an American scholar, thinks that the Chronicle of Modern Bamboo Slips and the Chronicle of Ancient Bamboo Slips are quite different in style and writing, because they are the products of two bamboo slips sorting in the Western Jin Dynasty.