唐代  唐(661 AD～721 AD)

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　　Wing Lung Gaozong first year (680) held Scholars. Empress Wu Chang years (702) began as a historian, Qijuzhu essays, history successive Zhuzuozuolang left ﹑ ﹑ ﹑ Mishushaojian Zhuzuo Lang ﹑ ﹑ Bastard Prince left the rank of the left Sanjichangshi, Imperial History. Chang and Zhu Jing is Dengzhuan three years, "Tang" 80 volumes, Dragon (705 ~ 707) with Xu Jian Deng Zhuan "Empress Wu Record." The first year of reign congenital (712), and spectrum expert Liu Chong and other alterations to "clan-chi", to Kaiyuan years (714) Zhuancheng "family name his record" Volume 200, four years and Wu Jing Zhuancheng "Yejong Record "20 volumes, rebuild" the days of Record, "Volume 30 ﹑" in cases of Record, "20 volumes.
　　"General History" catalog (Ming dynasty)
　　Liu Zhiji dissatisfied with the system at the Academia Historica Supervisor Takaomi confusion and work on the repair history of flagrant interference in two years, King Dragon (708) from the history of the post of "retreat Private Writings of the" General History "to show its annals."
　　"General History" includes in chapter 39 chapter 13 ﹑ outside, inside of which articles of the "system", "defects", "relaxation" three essays in the Northern Song Qi Xiu ﹑ "New Book of Tang" Lost before, this book kept 49. Chapter for the book within the main body, focusing on history books about the Type and Style ﹑ ﹑ historical collection points and for the history of the principle of representation, and to review historical genre-based; article discusses the Historian System ﹑ foreign origin and history books miscellaneous gains and losses assessment historian. "General History" summarizes the Early football teams before and biographical history books in the compilation of the characteristics and gains and losses, that these two genres can not be neglected, and in this, took off on the basis of history is the main form of future history book. It biographical histories of the various parts of style, such as the Millennium ﹑ family ﹑ Biography ﹑ table calendar ﹑ book blog ﹑ of praise ﹑ order cases ﹑ subject, etc., made a comprehensive and detailed analysis, the preparation of historical methods and techniques are also many expositions , which is the first time in the history of Chinese History. It held that "to seek different, said mining Picks masses, then it can become an" advocate at various "miscellaneous history" should be short, respectively long and have their choice of past record in the presence of various "suspects something different speech and scholars should Shansi of. " On the principle of making history, "General History" book clearly straight by insisting, against the writing technique; its "pen", "writing technique" 2, in understanding the Chinese history of direct pen to further develop the fine traditions. Outside the chapter's "historian build" is a brief history of the Official Historian System; "ancient histories" Shishu Yuan dynasties narrative flow, sometimes there are some comments; "Suspicion", "confused by" Order of Wang Chong, "Lun Heng" and "ask hole "," thorn Meng, "while threads of ancient history and the Confucian classics do raise some questions, reflect on the seriousness of history and critical spirit;" miscellaneous said, "and other articles of this is the Reading Notes, related to past historical historian ﹑ gains and losses, in some places also reflects the view of philosophical thought and trends.