| 1 | ShiJi is the first book of The General History in Chinese history. | |
| 2 | Modern fiction, just like epics or life stories, can be regarded as a variant of biography. | |
| 3 | As for why the biographical history book History of the Jin Dynasty was mistaken for a chronicle, there was certain traceable cause. | |
| 4 | It was the first comprehensive biographical history book to appear in China. It covers a wide range of subjects, political, economic, cultural, military, etc. | |
| 5 | Biographies say in this article, excluding the history presented in a series of biographies of history books, but a verbal fight in mind writing independently of people's life. |