Fan Ye and His Historical and Biographical Literature
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Fan Ye had some talent, but was killed because he was involved in the internal strife of the Liu Song royal family. The south dynasty where it is located has a flourishing history. Influenced by his family studies, his "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" emphasized Confucianism, respected kingship, respected benevolent governance, praised loyalty and integrity, and wanted to "rectify the gains and losses of a generation." The style and characters of the whole book are inherited from "Dongguan Han Ji" and other historical works of the later Han Dynasty. Fan Ye absorbed the achievements of his predecessors and turned them into his own, and established a new type of biography. The richness of character types and the appeal of the characters' images are close to those in "Historical Records"; he adopted the "involvement method" to make the joint biography more like a whole; although the biographies are complicated, they are related and not messy. The narrative language is dense in simplicity, and beautiful in simplicity. The preface and argument are written by himself, tending to be parallel and concise, with a graceful and rhythmic charm. This is quite consistent with the literary atmosphere and style of the early Song Dynasty, reflecting the mutual influence and reference between the literary and historical creations of the Southern Dynasties.
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