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About This Novel

"Historical Records" is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in Chinese history. It records a history of more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. "Historical Records" is listed as the first of the "Twenty-Four Histories", and together with the later "Hanshu", "Later Hanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", they are collectively known as the "First Four Histories". It has had a profound impact on the development of later historiography and literature. His pioneering method of chronicling historiography was passed down by the "official histories" of subsequent dynasties. "Historical Records" is also considered an excellent literary work, playing an important role in the history of Chinese literature. It was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the unrhymed "Li Sao"" and has high literary value. Liu Xiang and others believe that this book is "good at explaining things, argumentative but not flashy, and qualitative but not slangy".

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