This genre appeared very early and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It can remember people and things, mountains and rivers, artifacts and buildings, so it is also called "Miscellaneous Notes". In writing, most of them are mainly narrative, with both argumentative and lyrical elements. "Ji" is an ancient style, which expresses the author's feelings and opinions by remembering people, events and scenes.
Extended data
"Ji" gained stylistic life in the Six Dynasties and entered in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, its content expanded and its form became more stable. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the subjective color became more intense and gradually matured and stabilized. According to the number of famous books in Historical Records, the changes of literary works and the increase or decrease of categories, we can more objectively understand the changes of Ji as a stylistic connotation.
Classification:
(1) Inscription: an ancient style carved on a stone tablet to tell the life story of a character.
② Travel Notes: It is a prose genre describing travel experiences.
Miscellaneous notes: It is a genre of ancient Chinese prose, which is based on things, without much discussion, and writes out what you have seen and heard.
(4) Note: It is the style, explanation, description and emotion that records the life stories of ancient characters.
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