How to Read Historical Records: Sima Qian's Historical World
by Yang Zhao
About This Novel
This book is a compilation of the ideal word-of-mouth program "Ancient and Modern: One Hundred Lectures on Yang Zhao's Historical Records". The author disrupts the original order of chapters in "Historical Records", uses "historical reading" to restore the social background of the time, explains the causes of major events, and uses "literary reading" to get closer to Sima Qian's perspective, attitude and philosophy, and brings the classic into today's time and space. He started with "Taishigong's Preface" and "Report to Ren An" to interpret Sima Qian's personal experiences, and then analyzed the history of the early Han Dynasty from chapters such as "The Chronicles of Xiang Yu", "The Chronicles of Gaozu", and "The Chronicles of Empress Lu", showing Sima Qian's sharp observation of the political operations of the early Han Dynasty. In the concept of multiple time dimensions, the "tables" and "books" in "Historical Records" can highlight Sima Qian's breakthrough creativity, and in the layout of the chronicles and biographies, we can also find who Sima Qian believed was a model worthy of being recorded in the history books, and what values were the driving force for him to devote all his energy to writing "Historical Records".
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Official(2)Scraped 19d ago
Study hard and work hard every day!
With this introduction, we will know how difficult it was for Tai Shigong to write historical records.
The history that has been handed down from ancient times to the present depends on the historians' straight writing. If there is any timidity, history will be castrated! If it is passed down to future generations, how can we know whether it is true or false? Therefore, what Tai Shigong did is particularly commendable!
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Official(2)Scraped 19d ago
Study hard and work hard every day!
With this introduction, we will know how difficult it was for Tai Shigong to write historical records.
The history that has been handed down from ancient times to the present depends on the historians' straight writing. If there is any timidity, history will be castrated! If it is passed down to future generations, how can we know whether it is true or false? Therefore, what Tai Shigong did is particularly commendable!
