China's historical biography literature is a part of China's historical literature, which has the general characteristics of historical literature and consists of historical science and literature and art.

From the literary point of view, it is a literary work with historical events as the theme and focuses on describing the images of historical figures; From the perspective of historiography, it is a historical work that expresses a certain historical view through the description of historical events and historical figures by means of literature and art.

History books and historical biographical literature

Cao Gui's Argument is selected from Zuo Zhuan. Chunqiu and Zuozhuan are both history books.

Historical biography literature is a literary category, which studies historical works from the perspective of literature. From this perspective, Chunqiu and Zuozhuan are also historical biographical literature.

Both Chunqiu and Zuozhuan have gone through a long historical process, and the progress of narrative skills and the increase of historical documents are the main reasons for the differences in complexity and simplicity between Chunqiu and Zuozhuan.

From the perspective of the history of Confucian classics, Chunqiu is a classic, while Zuo Zhuan is a biography, which is a work for later generations to explain the classics.

"Spring and Autumn Annals" focuses on "calligraphy" and pays attention to praise and criticism. Zuo Zhuan inherits the classics with history, demonstrates the connotation of the classics with historical materials, and is interesting with Ram and Gu Liang.