Abstract: Xingzhuang is an applied style with the main content of "recording a person's life", whose essential components include genealogy name, official rank and Chinese nobility and specific village, overall personal evaluation, life, etc. With the historical development and the change of concepts, the main content of Xingzhuang also evolves. As far as the content is concerned, contents about married children has undergone changes from some to all, and finally became a fixed content; as far as the writing position of the content, Xingzhuang of requesting posthumous titles influenced the writing of Xingzhuang of begging epitaphs and inscriptions. The position of life gradually shifts from being listed outside of the article to inside. Xingzhuang, which has always been regarded as a formatted and routinely applied style, also has a vivid process of its development and evolution. Meanwhile, as a research object, there is no essential difference between Xingzhuang and other literary genres.