"The millet in Taicang, Chen Xiangyin, overflows and accumulates, so that it is rotten and inedible" comes from Historical Records, a biographical history book of Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty.
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, and forms a family statement, represented vertically by twelve biographies and ten tables.
It narrates all the historical times before the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, with eight books, thirty schools and seventy biographies as the representatives, controlling all classes, nationalities, fields and industries, and forming a comfortable structure criss-crossing.
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Sima Qian vividly and concretely wrote the contradictions and conflicts between the characters, reappearing the tense and changeable scenes, in which the characters were exposed completely and their respective personalities were brought to the extreme. For example, in the "Hongmen Banquet" in Xiang Yu's Biography, the author chose the scene of Hongmen, which is calm on the surface and full of dangers in reality, so that many characters can show their distinct personalities in the infighting and mutual set-off.
Liu Bang's tactfulness and treachery, Xiang Yu's frankness and lack of ingenuity, Sean's farsightedness and calmness, Fan Zeng's intolerance and impatience, Fan Kuai's generosity and boldness, and Xiang Bo's kindness and ignorance are all vivid.