志者,记也,志书亦即孔子所谓“述而不作”之类,与史书同源而又有别之。史书注重人与事,尤注重人们的言语与活动,所谓“左史记言,右史记事”是也,是先个体而后集合;志书则关注凝固化的业已定型的自然、制度以及作为群体的人们的思维与行为习惯,是先集合而后个体。与之相应,史家追求的是“究天人之际,通古今之变,成一家之言”, Chih-chih, Chih-chih, Chih-ch’ih-chih-chihhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh History books focus on people and things, especially people’s words and activities, so-called “leftist history, right history” is also the first individual and then set; Chi books are concerned about the solidification of the established nature, system and as a group People’s thinking and behavior is to gather and then individual. Correspondingly, the historian pursues “the study of the heaven and the earth, through ancient and modern changes into a family of words,”