Historical Records is divided into five parts: biography, table, book, family and biography, among which biography and biography are the main parts. It takes emperors and other political center figures in history as the main line of compiling historical records, and the division of labor among various styles is clear.
Among them, "biography", "family" and "biography" account for most of the book's length, and all of them record history with writing characters as the center. As a result, Sima Qian created a new style of history books-"Biography".
Appreciation of works:
The unique narrative art of Historical Records pays great attention to the deeper exploration of the causal relationship of events, synthesizes various historical books of the previous generation, forms a unified statement, and describes all historical times before the middle of the Western Han Dynasty with twelve biographies and ten tables as the representatives vertically, and eight biographies, thirty biographies and seventy biographies as the representatives horizontally, leading all classes, nationalities, fields and industries, forming a comfortable structure criss-crossing.
The history specifically recorded the magnificent historical situation during the struggle between Chu and Han. Literally, this article is the earliest masterpiece of narrative art centered on characters in China's prose. The thrilling war picture depicted in this article and the classic tragic hero image of Xiang Yu have had a great influence on various literary works in later generations.