Ngô Sĩ Liên
Ngô Sĩ Liên's style of compilation showed an important influence from Sima Guang, the author of the "Zizhi Tongjian". Different than his Vietnamese predecessors, Ngô Sĩ Liên did not limit his references in official documents related to history but he also extracted information from "Việt điện u linh tập" ("Compilation of the potent spirits in the Realm of Việt") and "Lĩnh Nam chính quái" ("Extraordinary stories of Lĩnh Nam") which were collections of folk legend and myth but considered by the historian having some credibility about history. Another innovation of Ngô Sĩ Liên is his division of history of Vietnam into two principal periods, he placed all events that happened before the establishment of the Đinh Dynasty in Peripheral Records ("Ngoại kỷ") while the independent time from the Đinh Dynasty (10th century) to the creation of the Lê Dynasty in 1482 was narrated in Basic Records ("Bản kỷ"). In addition, Ngô Sĩ Liên also compiled another three records for the reigns of Lê Thái Tổ, Lê Thái Tông and Lê Nhân Tông (1428–1459) in a separate volume named "Tam triều bản kỷ" ("Records of the Three Reigns").