The Shiji is the first chronicle and biography in Chinese history, the whole book **** one hundred and thirty articles. It is a kind of biography, which mainly records the affairs of vassals. The author is Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty. The Records of the Grand Historian (史记), written from about 104 BC to 91 BC, originally had no title, and after Sima Qian completed the work, he showed it to Dongfang Shuo (东方朔), a great scholar of the time, who admired it so much that he added the words "Tai Shi Gong (太史公)" to the book. "Tai Shi" was Sima Qian's official position, and "Gong" was a fancy name, and "Duke of Tai Shi" was just an indication of whose work it was. Ban Gu's "Han Shu - Art and Literature Zhi", when recording this book, changed it to "Hundred and Thirty Articles of the Duke of Taishi", which was simplified to "Records of the Duke of Taishi", "Book of the Duke of Taishi", "Biography of the Duke of Taishi" by the later generations. The Shiji was initially not a fixed book. Initially, there was no fixed title for the Shiji, but it was either called "The Book of the Duke of Taishi" or "The Record of the Duke of Taishi", or "The Duke of Taishi". Originally, "Shiji" was the common name for ancient history books, but from the Three Kingdoms onwards, "Shiji" gradually became the moniker of "Book of the Grand Historian" from the common name. Liang Qichao, a recent writer, praised this masterpiece as "a masterpiece for the ages" ("On the Great Trend of Changes in Chinese Academic Thought"). Lu Xun called it "a masterpiece of the historians, the unrhymed "Li Sao"" ("Outline of the History of Chinese Literature")

The compilation of the strategies and statements of the lobbyists in the Warring States period. At the beginning of the "state policy", "state affairs", "matter language", "short and long", "long book", "repair book" and other names and this, the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiang compiled as thirty-three. In the Song Dynasty, there was a lack of anonymity, and Zeng Gong made a supplement. There was a commentary by Gao Yuxing of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is now mutilated. Song Bao Biao changed the order of the original book and made a new note. Wu Yuan Shidao made a "school note", the recent Jin Zhengwei had a "supplemental interpretation", and the present Miao Wenyuan had a "new note on the Strategies of the Warring States". Hunan Changsha Mawangdui unearthed Western Han Dynasty Palindrome, the account of the Warring States period, the name of the Warring States Zonghengzhongjiashu, similar to the contents of this book.

The Strategies of the Warring States is a masterpiece of history in ancient China. It is a country-specific history book. The whole book is written according to the Eastern Zhou, Western Zhou, Qin, Qi, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Korea, Yan, Song, Wei and Zhongshan in order of countries, ****33 volumes, about 120,000 words.

The "Strategies of the Warring States" mainly describes the political propositions and strategies of the strategists of the Warring States period, and demonstrates the historical characteristics and social customs of the Warring States period, which is an important canon for the study of the history of the Warring States.