Examples of other stories in Sima Qian s Records of the Historians .

The Biography of Qu Yuan is an excerpt from "Historical Records: The Biography of Qu Yuan Jia Sheng", which is a biography of a character with a unique style.

Xinling Jun stole talismans to save Zhao" (selected from "Historical Records: The Biography of Wei Gongzi").

Historical Records: Biography of Boylies.

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1. Stories from the material.

Sima Qian carefully analyzed and selected the materials collected, eliminated some nonsense, such as not listing the three emperors without substantiation, starting with the five emperors, and adopting a skeptical attitude towards some issues that could not be clarified, or recording various different statements. Due to the wide range of materials and the serious attitude of historical revision, the "Historical Records" is detailed and rich in content.

2. Creative stories.

Sima Qianzi inherited his father's ambition and succeeded Taishi Ling. In his early years, he studied with Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu, roaming all over the world, understanding customs and collecting rumors. The first Langzhong was appointed to the southwest.

In the first year of Taichu (104 BC), Sima Qian began the creation of the Taishi Gongshu, which was later known as the Historical Records.

However, there was an accident, in the third year of the Tianhan Dynasty (98 years ago), Li Ling was defeated and surrendered to the Xiongnu, and Sima Qian was imprisoned for defending the matter to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and was sentenced to palace punishment, which gave him great physical and mental trauma. After being released from prison, he endured humiliation and dirt, and worked hard to continue to complete the historical books he wrote, with his historical knowledge of "studying heaven and man, through the changes of the past and the present, and becoming the words of a family", he went through 14 years before and after, and created China's first general history of the chronicle "Historical Records".

The Records of the Historians is the first general history of China in the form of biographies, which has a far-reaching influence on the historiography of later generations. Sima Qian's spirit of loyalty to writing history is truly admirable. It is because of his determination and perseverance that we can understand the truth of history.

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 repairing history, and he was determined to compile a history book that recorded the history of the 2,600 years from the Yellow Emperor to 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 his father's entrustment in mind, and was busy studying historical documents every day, sorting out the historical materials left by his father and the materials he collected from traveling 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 because he defended a general of Liang 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 lighter 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, the other Zen Duan tried his best to restrain himself, buried all his personal shame and pain in the bottom of his heart, spread out the smooth bamboo slips again, and wrote a neat line of official characters on it.

In this way, Sima Qian wrote angrily, and it took him 18 years to become famous, 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.