史记

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"Records of the Grand Historian" is the first general history of China written by Sima Qian.
It records more than 3,000 years of history (philosophy, politics, economy, military, etc.) "Historical Records" had no fixed title at first, or "Tai Shi Gong Shu", or "Tai Shi Gong Biography", also called "Tai Shi Gong".
"Historical Records" was originally the general term for ancient history books.
From the Three Kingdoms period, "Historical Records" gradually became the special name of "Tai Shi Gongshu" from the general name of historical books.
"Historical Records" and later "Han Shu" (Ban Gu), "Later Han Shu" (Fan Ye, Sima Biao), "Three Kingdoms" (Chen Shou) collectively called "the first four histories".
Liu Xiang and others think that this book is "good in order and reason, argumentative but not flamboyant, qualitative but not sloppy".
Together with Sima Guangs "Zizhitongjian", it is also known as the "double jade of history".