1, Sima Qian wrote Historical Records In the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian inherited his father's career and decided to write historical books. He traveled around and read a lot of books. I didn't expect that when I first started writing historical records, I was implicated in the disaster of Li Ling. However, he was determined, humiliated, corrupt, quiet and angry. After more than ten years of hard work, he finally wrote a masterpiece-Historical Records.

2. Qu Yuan's political proposition of "uniting Qi against Qin" has not been adopted, but it has been vilified because of its loyalty, but he can still "mourn for leaving Sao and repay loyalty to Chu"; Sima Qian suffered from corruption because he wrote a straight book, "not flattering beauty" and "not hiding evil", but he was able to "write down the history of faith with grief and indignation"; Although Du Fu is "wet at night" and "clothes are like iron", he is still "the people are suffering, and the bottom of the pen is rippling", chanting the eternal swan song of "ensuring the world is not poor". They did not dilute their sufferings in the passage of time, but fought against fate with all their enthusiasm and wisdom, sublimated themselves and embellished history.

3 Introduction of Sima Qian

(BC 145 or BC 135 ~ 87? )

Historians and writers in the Western Han Dynasty. Word length. Zuo Fengyi was born in xia yang (now Hancheng, Shaanxi). Father Sima Tan, a versatile scholar, was appointed as Taishiling between Jianyuan and Yuanfeng. In The Essentials of Six Classics, he summed up six important schools of thought, namely Yin and Yang, Confucianism, Mohism, Ming, Fa and Taoism, and evaluated them respectively: he affirmed the five schools of Yin and Yang, pointed out their shortcomings, and gave a comprehensive affirmation to Taoism. This shows that Sima Tan accepted the influence of Huang Lao's thought, which was dominant in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, and it was not completely in tune with the policy of ousting a hundred schools of thought and worshipping Confucianism alone during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Sima Tan attached great importance to family traditions and his duties as a historian. He once sighed: "Since Lin was awarded, he has been over 400 years old, and he is a vassal, and his historical records are deserted. Today, the Han family is prosperous and unified at home. The wise men of the Ming dynasty died of loyalty, and the rest were old and discussed history, abolishing the history of the world. " (Biography of Taishigong in Historical Records) All these had a very obvious influence on Sima Qian's later career.

Sima Qian spent his childhood at the foot of Longmen Mountain near the Yellow River in his hometown. /kloc-at the age of 0/0, he began to study ancient literature with his father, Chang 'an, Sima Tan, and directly studied under the famous Confucian masters Dong Zhongshu and Kong Anguo. At the age of 20, I traveled to Jianghuai in the south. According to the preface to Historical Records, he "went to the meeting, explored the cave, went to the nine caves, drifted in Yuan, Hunan, involved in the northern temperature, involved in the company, talked about the capital of Qilu, watched the legacy of Confucius, shot in the countryside, and was trapped in Hubei, Xue and Pengcheng. Later, he was appointed as a doctor, a teacher, a Chinese book, etc., and traveled more places, either as an envoy or as a guard. These experiences gave him the opportunity to personally appreciate the magnificent natural scenery of the motherland, investigate and understand many historical facts, correct and supplement the omissions in the literature, and also made it possible for him to get in touch with the real life of the broad masses of the people and increase his understanding of social reality.