《XinTang Shu·Prime minister Lineage List》,《Liao Shi·Tribe List》,《Liao Shi·Dependancy List》,《JingShi·Bargain List》 especially have features, adequately reveal respective era s characts; also show innovative spirit in historical compilatory.

This paper discusses the classicalization and essentialization in the compilation of literary history,and analyzes the process in which classicalization and essentialization cause the loss of truth in literary research.

Subjective historical picture constructed by writing of history is a rational form of contemporary expression of objective history.

He was devoted to general history all his life, so he expounded his viewpoints about the significance, the choice of historical events, the order of synthesizing historical events and the expressive way on the compilation of general history systematically.

With good traditions of history study in ancient times and under the guidance of Marxist theories, he expanded the meaning of "general" and advanced new demands for the compilation of general history.