After the publication of Historical Records, many versions appeared. At present, the earliest existing version is the manuscript of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The earliest block print was the single block print of Historical Records in the Northern Song Dynasty. Huang Ben was the first three annotations in the Southern Song Dynasty. Prints before the Song Dynasty have been lost. There are three annotations in the existing Huang edition of the Southern Song Dynasty, the 21st history of Ming Jiajing Wanli, the 17th history of Jiguge, the 24th history of Wuying Temple in Qianlong, Qing Dynasty, and The Collection of Historical Records, Searching for Justice, published by Jinling Bookstore during the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, which are different from other single editions and have been handed down to this day. General books are mainly Huang's books, Wu Yingtang's books and Jinling Bureau's books. Huang's book is better. The new specimen of Zhonghua Book Company (1959) is based on Jinling Book Company, and punctuation marks are printed in sections. It extensively absorbed the previous research results and was revised again. The format of new specimens from Zhonghua Book Company 1959 has also changed greatly. According to Wu Ying's palace edition, major questions (titles) rank first, minor questions (titles of articles) rank last, and Jinling Bureau ranks before the official books, such as Sima Zhen's Preface to Historical Records, Preface to Historical Records and Preface to Historical Records of Zhang Shoujie. After this finishing, the eyebrows are clearer than before. In addition, the choice of fonts, the use of punctuation marks, the addition of ten tables and the Gregorian calendar era are all beneficial to historical readers.

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