the chronicle of history is a general history of the chronicles. the chronicle refers to a genre that focuses on the narration of historical facts, with biographies of characters as the center, and the chronicle of history includes the twelve books, the thirty dynasties, the seventy chronicles, and the ten tables and eight books. twelve of them record the political achievements of successive emperors, while the thirty dynasties record the rise and fall of princely states and han dynasty princes, and the seventy columns record the words and deeds of important people.

the main content of the chronicle of history

the "records of history" is divided into five parts: the benji, the table, the book, the family, and the chronicles, of which the ten tables and eight books respectively record the chronology of major events and various canonical systems, as well as liturgical music, musical rhythms, calendars, and astronomy. "honki", "shijia", and "liechuan" are the main parts of the book, and history is recorded with the writing of characters as the center.

the "chronicle of history" begins with the legendary yellow emperor and continues to the first year of the han wu emperor yuan hunt. "benji" is the outline of the whole book, based on the change of dynasties, and records the words and administrative achievements of the emperor according to the chronology and time; among them, the five chapters of pre-qin history are the five emperors, xia, yin, zhou, and qin; the seven chapters that record the history of the qin and han dynasties are, in order, qin shi huang, xiang yu, king xiang yu of chu, liu bang, emperor gao of han, lü yan of gaohou, liu heng of han wen, liu qi, emperor jing of han, and liu che, emperor of han.