Why is there no history of Western Xia in the Twenty Four History?

The Twenty-Four Histories are the so-called official histories of ancient times, which were established by Qianlong, among which there are two biographies about Western Xia in the History of the Song Dynasty:

Biography 244 Foreign 1 Xia Guoshang.

Biography 245 Foreign 2 Xia Guoxia.

Therefore, the history of Western Xia is included in the history of the Song Dynasty.

According to the provisions of the "Siku Quanshu", the official history category "Those who have not been judged will not be published indiscriminately." Cover the official history of the body respect, righteousness and scripture matching, not hanging the edicts, do not dare to increase privately", that is, without the approval of the emperor, shall not be included in the official history.

Therefore, the twenty-four histories are only a provision, and the Western Xia is not listed separately as a history book, and the reasons for this may be:

1. The Xixia country is small, remote and uses the Tangut language, so there are few historical materials, and it is difficult to form something of the nature of historical books.

2. Because the Western Xia was a minority regime and did not exist for a long time, the traditional people had the idea of contempt, so even if there were some historical materials circulating, they were not listed as the official history.

3. At that time, Western Xia was rarely strong, and most of the time it was a vassal state of Liao, Jin, and Song, so it was not a history book. Similarly, Dali, Goryeo, and Tubo have not been separately written, but only attached to the history of the Song Dynasty.

The general official revision history is the history of the previous generation inherited by the Xiuben Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was more courageous, the Sui Book and the Southern and Northern History, the Southern Qi Book, the Liang Book, and the Chen Shu were all repaired, and the descendants basically only repaired the official history of the Dynasty that directly replaced it, the Western Xia Dynasty was located in a remote area, and the history was not long, and the Yuan Dynasty was founded in the hometown of the Jin Dynasty, so it did not attach importance to the history of the Western Xia. In addition, the Western Xia was less influenced by Han culture, lacked historical awareness, preserved less historical materials, and objectively made it more difficult to revise the history of the Western Xia.

Because the 24 histories were written for the more influential dynasties at that time, the history of the Tangut only belonged to the relatively powerful minority regimes of the same period, and there were few preserved historical materials, so there was no history of the Tangut dynasty.

Because the Western Xia dynasty was very small, no separate book was published for him.

I haven't written a book yet. Calm down.

This is because although the Tangut Dynasty has existed for a long time, it has never agreed with China, so the Yuan Dynasty, which revised the history of the previous dynasty, listed the Song Dynasty as the official history, and only placed the Tangut in foreign biographies, which also reflects the rejection of minority regimes by the ancient rulers.

The Mongols had a strong hatred for Western Xia. There is also an orthodoxy of the Central Plains Dynasty, there are quarrels, which makes the compilation at that time repeatedly delayed. There is also a lack of historical materials related to Western Xia. Therefore, there is no history of Western Xia in "Twenty-four History".

It may be because the country of Western Xia is small and remote, and there are not many things recorded, and Western Xia has always been in a subordinate position, and it is difficult to form historical books, and the level of Western Xia is not enough.

Because the history of Western Xia is chaotic and did not appear in the Central Plains, it is just a national dynasty on the side of the fortress, and the "Twenty-Four History" mainly records the dynastic history of the Central Plains.

Because the Western Xia dynasty was very small, no separate book was published for him.

It is true that Temujin died at the hands of the Tanguts.