In biography, writing your own biography is called autobiography, which mainly describes your life story and works, and some memoirs also belong to autobiography. Autobiography, generally in the first person, also useful in the third person. Autobiography can be divided into autobiography and oral autobiography according to narrative methods.

2, according to the carrier classification

According to different carriers, biographies can be divided into biographies, photo biographies and biographies.

General biography, mainly written narration.

Illustrated biography refers to a paper book or electronic text reading material that mainly includes pictures and photographs, supplemented by short and concise words and materials, and reflects the biography author's life story, life situation, mental outlook and major contributions. Picture biography has the characteristics of authenticity and readability of text biography and intuition and visibility of album.

Biography is a biography made in the form of documentary and film. Biographies made in the form of documentaries are also called documentaries; Biographies made in the form of movies are also called biographical movies.

3, according to the main classification

(1) Political category: leaders, politicians, politicians and revolutionaries.

(2) Literature and art: writers, artists, philosophers and educators.

(3) Science and technology: scientists, academicians, experts and engineers.

(3) Military category: general, officer, hero and martyr.

(4) Performing arts: stars and artists.

(5) Finance and economics: founders, entrepreneurs and leading figures.

(6) Social category: social activists and philanthropists.

(7) Folk categories: chivalrous people, strange people, role models and dutiful sons.

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The origin of biography:

China's biography not only originated very early, but also has various genres. To sum up, the genre of biographies can be divided into four categories: one is biographies, the other is biographies (that is, biographies), the third is historical biographies, and the fourth is biographies (referring to legends in local chronicles).

China's biographical writing was in its infancy as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Quite vivid characters have appeared in historical works such as Zuozhuan, Guoyu and Warring States Policy. This period can be regarded as the beginning of biography. By the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, during the period of Emperor Wu, Historical Records, known as "poems without rhyme, masterpieces of historians", appeared.

The biographical style initiated by Sima Qian indicates that China's biography has reached a mature stage and reached a peak. Sima Qian not only created the narrative of historical events instead of biographies, but also used literary means to describe historical figures and created a series of vivid figures, which not only laid a solid foundation for the rise of China literature and history, but also had a great impact on the development of history, literature and drama.

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