焦竑《獻征錄》是明代最杰出人物的傳記,所收人物凡3554人,跨度之大,數量之多,史無前例。但焦竑在選錄人物時,并非任意濫收,而是有本可據,自成體系,表現出編載人物、以官署為主,選錄人物、以德為主,傳記類型靈活多樣等獨特編纂義例,充分彰顯了明代史學編纂體例的綜合化趨勢,極大豐富了人物傳記的敘事筆法,成為后世傳記撰述相率模仿的標范。

Jiao Hong’s XIANZHENGLU is the most outstanding collection of biographies in the Ming Dynasty,and it collected biographies of 3554 figures,which had no parallel in history. Jiao Hong selected figures elaborately. For example,the figures were arranged according to the government offices which they belonged to,and they were selected and recorded based on their morality. The types of biographies were flexible. All these showed the trend that different stylistic rules and layout of historical records were synthesized in Ming Dynasty,and it enriched the skills of biographical writing. The book is an excellent model for the followers.