Is there a systematic and authoritative history book in the West like the Chinese Records of the Hi

What do you mean by the West? The West-East is only a concept that came later.

Historical records are only the history of the Han Dynasty of China and neighboring countries, and according to the comparison, the most opposite to the Han Dynasty of China should be the Roman Empire.

Ancient Rome had "The Biography of the Twelve Emperors of Rome", etc., then the history of Rome can be.

As for you asking this question, it should be because you have seen the introduction to reasoning in the documentary, etc., let me give you the following personal opinion:

This is not because there are no historical records (of course, there are not many documents for civilizations that are too old such as the Sumerian civilization, just like the lack of documents in the Xia and even Shang periods in the Middle Ages), but Westerners are still very serious and responsible for historical records.

In Chinese history, there is also the phenomenon of reasoning about history and so on (the so-called family words mean this, such as whether Zhuge Liang, who has been very popular recently, wants to be the emperor or not...). ps: I like Mr. Yi Zhongtian's speech very much), because history books themselves may be wrong, lost, concealed, or contradictory, so historians will make inferences about real history based on various knowledge such as archaeology, which is not surprising.

Homer's Epics, the source of Western historiography.

Herodotus's History of the Greco-Persian Wars, which takes the Greco-Persian War as a clue, describes the relevant historical facts of the Mediterranean world, and becomes the foundation of Western historiography, and Herodotus also has the reputation of the father of historiography.

Hucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Caesar's Gallic Wars

Salestius, The Catiline Conspiracy, The Jugurdah War

Livy, History of Rome

Tacitus, Chronicles, History

Suvetonius, The Twelve Caesars

The early historical works of the West were mainly modern and modern historical accounts, mostly war histories, and the authors often experienced historical events firsthand, similar to the "end of the chronicle". After a certain development, works of a general history nature appeared. The Twelve Caesars are similar to the Honki.

Plutarch's "Biography of Famous People" is similar to the ...... "biography".However, it is rare to find such a comprehensive general history work as "Records of the Historians" that combines multiple genres: chronicles, biographies, books, and tables. Western classical historiography has been meticulously narrated and emphasized historical interpretation, and after modern times, due to the development of scientific thinking, Western historiography has entered a new stage of development. Modern Chinese historiography has also developed under the influence of Western historiography.

Yes, the earliest was written by the Mayans of South America, I forgot the title, since then, the ancient Greeks, ancient Romans, ancient Egyptians have written history books, but we are Easterners, sometimes we know too little about the West, not very clear (it is certain that the Jews do not have a real sense of history books, they rely on wisdom to store history in their heads, but they will not forget it for a lifetime, so it is much better than some Chinese forget history).

Foreign history is not as rule-based as our Chinese history, you must remember: China is the only country in the world whose history has never been broken! The history of other countries cannot be connected with a clear line, so there is only a history of dynasties like Ban Gu's record of the history of the Western Han Dynasty, and it is really difficult to string together the general history.

The history of the West is not as long as that of China, and most of the writings are not authoritative!

The greatest and most authoritative book in the history of the Bible.

Herodotus's Histories, Homer's Homeric Epics, both have a high status in the West. Of course, Homer's epic poems, like the Bible, have many legendary parts. But some of the contents have been verified by the current research.

Yes, for example, the Bible, which you can read as a history book.

I don't think there's anything like a historical record.

The Records of the Historian is a biographical history book, and it is also a biographical literary work with a strong literary value. The disadvantage of his literary achievements is mainly manifested in:

1) Created a colorful character image.

"Historical Records" is the first character-centered biographical literary creation in ancient China, reflecting history by writing people, so the whole book records from the emperor to the emperor and the generals, down to the assassins, rangers, advocates, merchants, doctors and many other small figures, constituting a rich gallery of characters. These characters not only have the commonality of various classes, strata and eras, but also have distinct and unique personalities, which are full of typicality. Such as Zhang Liang's good strategy, Xiang Yu's bravery, Liu Bang's treacherousness, Han Xin's wisdom, Shang Ying's meanness, Li Si's greed, Li Guang's good shooting, etc.

This is because Sima Qian appropriately used some methods to create a persona.

2) Plan the layout and ingenuity.

3) Strong lyricism.

4) The language is vigorous, simple and clumsy, with a sense of momentum and rhythm.

The Records of the Historian is the first general history in Chinese history, which covers the history of more than 3,000 years from the era of the legendary Emperor Huang Cha to the first four years of Emperor Wu of the Qing and Han dynasties.

Chronicle

Chronicle is a genre of traditional Chinese history books, which is a style of historical books that uses chronology as a clue to arrange historical events. Chronicles are time-centered, chronicling historical events in the order of year, month, and day. Because it is based on time and historical events, it is easier to reflect the connection between various historical events in the same period.

For example: "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Bamboo Book Chronicle", "Han Ji", "Later Han Ji", "Guoyu" and so on.

Illustrated in the image above:

Taking the general knowledge of information governance as an example, it can be seen that historical events have been brewing, occurring, and endingTime to explain,It gives people a clear concept of time, and it is easier to reflect the background of the occurrence and development of historical events;

Representative works:

The number of chronicles is extremely large. The famous ones include "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan", "Zizhi Tongjian" and so on.

Chronicles

As the name suggests, the biography mainly reflects historical events through the biography of people.

Thought that the character set up a biography, the emperor's biography said"Discipline", the average person called"Biography", the character of the special situation is called"Record", recording the system, customs, economy, etc"Chi", ranking historical events in **"Table", the way to narrate historical facts.

Take historical records as an example:

It can be seen that the articles are differentIt is the book, the table, the book, the family, and the biography. It mainly records the history of princes and nobles. The Antlimb Hail Biography records a wide range of historical figures, but it cannot record the entire process of historical events.

Representative works:

Historical Records", Book of Han, Book of the Later Han, Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Jin

Country-specific entities

The country style is a style of historical books that takes the country as a unit and recounts historical events separately. "Chinese" is China's first country-specific historical record, is a historical essay on the division of the country, starting from King Mu of Western Zhou, in the early years of the Warring States Lu mourning duke, containing Zhou, Lu, Qi, Jin, Zheng, Chu, Wu, Yue and other countries about 427 years of historical facts. On the occasion of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was compiled into a book by the historians of the Jin Kingdom.

Take the Warring States Policy as an example

Taking the Warring States Policy as an example, it can be seen that the main thing isTake the country as the key, and the events that occur in the country are the goalto write the style.

Representative works of hunger and filial piety:

Chinese", "Warring States Policy", "Shangshu", "Spring and Autumn", "Zuo Chuan".