Burning books and entrapping Confucians
Regarding a deer as a horse
Surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao
The peach and plum blossoms made their own mistakes without saying anything
"Historical Records" It is a biographical history book written by the famous historian Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in Chinese history. It is listed as the first of the "Twenty-Four Histories" and records everything from the legendary Yellow Emperor era to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It has a history of more than 3,000 years in the first year of Mogasuri. Together with the later "Hanshu", "Houhanshu" and "Three Kingdoms", it is called the "First Four Histories".
"Historical Records" has had a profound impact on the development of later historiography and literature. His pioneering method of chronicling historiography was passed down by the "official histories" of subsequent dynasties. At the same time, "Historical Records" is also considered an excellent literary work, playing an important role in the history of Chinese literature. It was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians, the unrhymed "Li Sao"" and has high literary value. Liu Xiang and others believe that this book is "good at explaining things, argumentative but not flashy, and qualitative but not slangy". Together with Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian", it is also known as the "double wall of history".
The whole book of "Historical Records" includes twelve chronicles (recording the achievements of emperors of the past dynasties), thirty families (recording the rise and fall of vassal states and Han Dynasty princes, nobles and nobles), and seventy biographies (recording the words and deeds of important figures, mainly Narrating Ren Chen (the last one is a preface), Shi Biao (chronology of major events), Eight Books (recording various laws and regulations, etiquette, music, rhythm, calendar, astronomy, Zen, water conservancy, and financial use), *** One hundred and thirty articles, more than 526,500 words.