Abstract
What on earth are the embodiments of the growth of the historical writing? Concerned answers greatly differ from each other. In this regard, the present author concludes four types of historiographical development. First, formally, the growth is embodied in the growing number of history books and the diversifying genres of historical writing. Second, intellectually, the late generations of historians carry forward the idea of history by means of the critical (re-)examination of works penned by historians in previous ages.