Historical Records is listed as the first of the "twenty-four histories", and it is also called "the first four histories" with the later Hanshu, Houhanshu and the History of the Three Kingdoms [8]? , has had a far-reaching impact on the development of later historiography and literature.
His original biographical method of compiling history was passed down by the "official history" of later generations. Historical Records is also an excellent literary work, which occupies an important position in the history of China literature. It is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme", which has high literary value. Liu Xiang and others think that this book is "good in order and reason, argumentative but not flashy, qualitative but not vulgar".
Historical Records is not only a biographical history book, but also a collection of biographical literature, and its influence has gone far beyond the scope of China. Some chapters of Historical Records have been translated into Russian, French, English, German and Japanese. Historical Records has become an immortal masterpiece.
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From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the research monographs and papers of Historical Records covered the famous articles' names and regulations, geographical evolution, textual collation, phonological exegesis, edition origin, exegesis and other fields. The method is to copy materials and quote them in parallel, which is basically a microscopic "literature" study.
Since the 20th century, the academic research team of Sima Qian and Historical Records has been growing. In addition to textual research on Sima Qian's birth year, life and family background, as well as the name, limitation, system, materials, incomplete supplements and righteous examples of Historical Records, scholars have further expanded their comprehensive research on Historical Records.
Based on documents, they absorbed local archaeological achievements, combined with western historical theories and methods, made rigorous textual research, prudent judgment and rigorous logical analysis, which greatly promoted the progress of Chinese mainland's Historical Records from "historical materials study" to "historical records study" and achieved many breakthrough results.
For example, Wang Guowei first used Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronze to prove that the three generations of history recorded in Historical Records are credible. From Wang Guowei and Guo Moruo's textual research on Sima Qian's birth date with Han bamboo slips to Chen Zhi's New Historical Records, archaeological documents have been greatly used.
The textual research in this century mainly focuses on Sima Qian's traveling years, the mystery of historical records, the similarities and differences between horses and classes, historical records and ram studies, historical records and three notes.
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