Written in 1044–1060 under the Northern Song in 225 scrolls:
欧阳修 wrote the annals, treatises and tables, and
宋祁 the biographies. Its aim was 'more events, fewer words' than the old history, and it added detailed tables of chief ministers and new treatises on the army and the examinations. It is the seventeenth of the
二十四史.
