Selfannotation is a unique annotation method in Chinese historiography, which is not distinguished from the text in the existing history books. Since the early days of the injection, the preQin classics such as “ZuoZhuan” and “GuoYu” have already existed. In the process of writing Shi Ji, Sima Qian had already used the method, There are various types of selfannotation in Shi Ji, which including the original material annotation, Sima Qian’s annotations for the original materials, and Sima Qian’s annotations when he was writing new historical materials.The selfannotation in Shi Ji established to explain the text meaning, interpreting and compleming, some express a kind of right and wrong evaluation and value judgment, or to establish a kind of narrative structure,or achieve the “mixed” Shi Ji encyclopedia of tools. Judging from the whole book, Tai Shi Gong Zi Xu is the selfannotation of the book. The selfinjection and the text fuse together to achieve the artistic state of the unity in Shi Ji,which provides a mature model for the writing of history books.

Shi Ji；selfannotation； annotation type； historiography