Inheritance and Innovation of Editing & Publishing Industry of Historiography of Song Dynasty

On the base of the inheritance of predecessor’s results,experiences and methods and some innovations,a set of complete system for the historical compilation knowledge was established in Song Dynasty on the compilation of historical material and books.The new compilation style of history books—"the history present in separate accounts of important events" and "the detailed outline" were created.The significant inheritance and innovation were made by Zheng Qiao in his General Annuals in terms of the general history presented in a series of biographies,"Having a style of his own system of thoughts".