Sima Qian and the Introduction of Historical Records

Sima Qian (former 145 or former135-impossible to test) was born in xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi). Historians and essayists in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishiling, was imprisoned for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as the secretariat. He worked hard to complete the historical records he wrote, and was called Shi Qian, Tai Shigong and the father of history by the later Buddha.

Historical Records, formerly known as Taishigong or Taishigong Gong Ji and Taishigong Historical Records, is a biographical historical book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in the history of China, recording the history of four years and more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty. In the first year of Taichu (BC 104), Sima Qian began to create Taishi Gongshu, later called Shiji. This book was used for 14 years before and after completion.

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Historical achievements

In 9 1 year BC (the second year of Zheng He), Historical Records was written. Book 130, with more than 526,500 words, including 12 biographies, 30 aristocratic families, 70 biographies, 10 tables and 8 books, which have a great influence on later generations. They are called "true records and faithful history", praised by Mr. Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, leaving Sao without rhyme", and listed as the first of the previous "four histories", just like "Zi Tongzhi"

Commemoration of future generations

South of hancheng city, Shaanxi Province, there is a building dedicated to Sima Qian at the northern end of Liangshan, overlooking the Yellow River. The Sima Qian Temple built here began in Yongjia four years of the Western Jin Dynasty (3 10). The county magistrate built stone chambers, erected monuments and planted cypress trees. Sima Chi, Emperor Huai of the Western Jin Dynasty, offered sacrifices to Sima Qian with the same surname. In the seventh year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 125), the tomb wall was repaired, and bedrooms, temples and mountain gates were built. Later, in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was continuously repaired and rebuilt, becoming today's ancestral temple.

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