The Development of Historians in Pre-Qin Period

Ancient historian

"History": the original meaning is not a book, but a person who writes notes in words, and it is a professional title. The post was not high in the pre-Qin period.

"Shuo Wen Jie Zi": "History is also recorded, and it is given at the time." (Holding a thin book in his right hand)

The earliest historians existed in the Xia Dynasty. The Xia dynasty set a Taishi order. Yin Shang had internal history, and Zhou Dynasty had five histories. There are 30 historians around, 35 in each vassal state.

The role of Xia, Shang and Zhou historians: personnel and heaven. Personnel: preserve ancient books, record current events, draft documents, convey the king's orders, present books and regulations, and recite historical events.

God: What's so strange? You mainly ask historians what to do.

The author takes Yi Zhuan and Shuo Wen as evidence, regards the appearance of characters as the condition for the emergence of historians, and thinks that history began with the Yellow Emperor. wind

According to Tong Jian and Wei Heng's Si Ti Shu, when the Yellow Emperor was working with Cang Po, there was also a historian named Ju Yong. world

"Ben Zuo Zhang Zhong Song" points out that it is time for the Yellow Emperor to make efforts to be a Jiazi, an arithmetic officer and a calendar.

Historian. These two statements have a great influence on later generations. Liu Zhiji, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Shi Tong Guan Shi Jian: "The official who compiles history,

It's still here. Yesterday, Xuanyuan ordered Cang Po and Ju Yong to live in their posts. "On behalf of Ma Duanlin in" Literature Chief Examiner "(Volume

} 1) Yi Yun: "The historian originated from the Yellow Emperor, and since then, Xia Taishi has died, and it is still a surname. '

The book also mentions two other typical examples of the theory that the historian system began in the era of the Yellow Emperor. The legend about the Yellow Emperor was first recorded in.

Rites of Zhou. However, Zhou Li did not mention whether there were historians in the Yellow Emperor era, and there was no written record in the pre-Qin documents and unearthed materials.

This sentence can be confirmed. Why will there be such a statement in future generations? According to the author's consideration, it is likely that there are some materials to refer to or pass on.

The speculation is not credible, but it is certain that there are historians in Xia Dynasty.

Historians play an important role in history, which is the inevitable result of the development of human society, and in some ways.

It reflects the objective law of social and historical development. Therefore, "to explore the origin of the historian system, we should grasp the historical reality and start from two aspects."

One is from a historical perspective, and the other is from the perspective of whether the country has emerged, because only the country will create these people.

There is a so-called "necessary leisure" that specializes in mental work. In the society at that time, the medium between God and man,

Become the master of theocracy. Secondly, from the point of view of whether words were produced, because only words were produced at that time.

It may make these people become "post-saints" ruled by knots in ancient times, and post-saints are easy to use books and engage in cataloguing.

Major national activities such as writing scriptures, offering sacrifices, divination, and registering life. ""According to these two conditions, we can know whether the Xia Dynasty.

The conditions for the emergence of historians are discussed.

Xia Dynasty, just born out of primitive society, is the first slave country in China that has been affirmed by historians for a long time.

Go home. It had a history of 47 1 year from the early Qing Dynasty to its death in the summer, during which it moved its capital eight times. So far, it has been discovered for several summers.

Industrial city ruins, Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties dating engineering expert group concluded that Xia as a country must exist. The founding of the People's Republic of China is the history of Xia Dynasty.

The first premise of the official system. So, when did China's writing come into being? It is generally believed that China's earliest writing is

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was in the Shang Dynasty, because the writing before that has not been found so far. But in fact, according to the research of ancient linguists,

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a very mature writing, and its vocabulary is similar to the Book of Songs, Zhouyi and Shangshu, which proves this.

Not the earliest writing in China. In recent decades, archaeologists have provided sufficient evidence for this conclusion. twenty

In the late 1970s, Mr. Qiu Xigui said in the article Discovery and Arrangement of Ancient Chinese Characters since Liberation:

"Since liberation, many symbolic Wen Tao have been found in Yangshao cultural sites such as Banpo and Jiangzhai, which have been catching giants for more than 6,000 years.

I found some picturesque Wen Tao in your address in Hankou, such as Lingyang River, which was four or five thousand years ago. These Wen Tao have been studied.

An extremely important new material for studying the origin and formation of Chinese characters. Many comrades think that the latter can be regarded as the true face of Chinese characters. "

Archaeology in Shang and Zhou Dynasties said: "There are more than 20 kinds of carved symbols found in Erlitou pottery, such as Dakouzun. . } :}} l

In the past ten years, Jia Hu in Wuyang County, Henan Province and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Doumen Town in the western suburbs of Xi, Shaanxi Province

Oracle Bone Inscriptions, unearthed in garden village, depicts a picture of Oracle Bone Inscriptions pointing to Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province 3100-3,700 years ago.