Why is it said that Sima Qian made all Chinese people in history?

Another is that he denies the foreignness of history, believing that all history takes place in the country!

It is estimated that it may be because his historical records are too famous.

Sima Qian's deeds:

In his early years, Sima Qian studied under Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu, roaming all over the world, understanding customs and collecting rumors. The first Langzhong was appointed to the southwest. Yuan Feng served as Taishi Ling for three years, inherited his father's business, and wrote history.

With his historical knowledge of studying heaven and man, through the changes of the past and the present, and the words of a family, he created China's first general history "Historical Records", which is recognized as a model of Chinese history books.

The book records the history of more than 3,000 years from the period of the Yellow Emperor in ancient legends to the first year of Yuanjia of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and is the first of the 25 histories.

Sima Qian is a filial piety, easy-going, perseverance of the person, he said a famous sentence that shook the ancient and the present: "People are inherently dead, or lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai, with the use of the different."

Sima Qian's son inherited his father's business, and Sima Qian's father gave Sima Qian this important task when he was dying, and told Sima Qian to do Taishi and fulfill the wishes of his ancestors. And Sima Qian also made a history in accordance with his father's wishes, and also treated the compilation of history books as his life's work. Looking at Fu Na in this way, at least it can show that Sima Qian is a filial person.

When Sima Qian was young, he traveled through mountains and rivers and saw all the customs and customs, and perhaps many literati made friends, so Sima Qian should be an easy-going person.

1. Sima Qianfa angrily wrote historical records:

Sima Qian was born in Longmen, on the banks of the Yellow River. Since he was a child, he watched the rolling Yellow River roar away from under the Dragon Gate, and listened to the stories of ancient heroes told by his parents and fellow villagers, and his heart was very excited.

His father, Sima Tan, was the Han Dynasty who was in charge of the revision of history, and he was determined to compile a history book, which contained the history of the 2,600 years from the Yellow Emperor to the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Influenced by his father, Sima Qian studied hard and greatly enriched his knowledge of history. He also traveled far and wide, making friends and accumulating a large amount of historical materials.

When Sima Tan was dying, he tearfully took his son's hand and said: "After I die, the court will let you succeed me as an official, you must not forget the history books I want to complete in my life!" ”

Sima Qian kept in mind his father's entrustment, and was busy studying historical documents every day, sorting out the historical materials left by his father and the materials he collected from all over the country in his early years. Just as he was concentrating on writing the "Historical Records", a flying disaster suddenly befell him. It turned out that Sima Qian offended Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for defending a general, and was imprisoned and tortured.

Sima Qian was full of grief and anger, and wanted to splash blood on the wall several times, and he lost his life. But thinking that the "Historical Records" had not yet been completed, he dispelled this idea.

He thought: "People always have to die, some are heavier than Mount Tai, and some are less serious than feathers." If I die like this, won't I be lighter than a feather? I must live! I must finish this history book! ”

Thinking of this, he tried his best to restrain himself, buried all his personal shame and pain in his heart, spread out the smooth bamboo slips again, and wrote a neat line of characters on it. In this way, Sima Qianfang Zhen was angry and wrote, and it took him 18 years, and when he was 60 years old, he finally completed a brilliant masterpiece of 520,000 words - "Historical Records". This unprecedented work, which almost exhausted his life's work, was written by him with his life.