Explanation: A small official in ancient times, who collected gossip, anecdotes and hearsay for the emperor to read. Unofficial history: No matter what the official history is, it's a private record, and it's an anecdote. Also known as "history". Later, novels or novelists are called officials. Refers to old novels and privately compiled history books.

From: History of Han Art and Literature: "Novelists flow because of officials, gossip in the streets, and hearsay."

Example: Li Ruzhen's "The Flower in the Mirror" is back to the seventieth: "Now I will pay this inscription to the literati as a ~ and spread it in the sea."

Grammar: combined; As predicate, object and attribute; A general term for old novels and miscellaneous histories.

Related examples:

1, the so-called "unofficial history", which refers to the miscellaneous history biographies and note novels written by the color people; These are also great readability, although they do not have the status of trusting history, and their popularity and rescue have even surpassed the official history.

2. Many interesting stories have been circulated among the people, most of which originated from the unofficial history of the government.

3. Lu Xun doesn't like to read the so-called "official history" written by ancient imperial scholars, but he likes to read the unofficial history written by unknown people, thinking that they reflect the true and reliable history.

4. The unofficial history is not a true record, and the credibility of some contents is open to question.

5. In order to write this historical novel, he almost read all the relevant official history and unofficial history.

6. The idiom unofficial history refers to the novel unofficial history.

7. History has not only official history, but also unofficial history that is disdained by a gentleman.

8. What is recorded in this unofficial history is not necessarily historical facts.

9. Although those records about the Sui Dynasty come from unofficial history, their authenticity seems to be more reliable than that about "official history".

10, we should always be on guard against people who have no official history.