Niu Yunzhen The Comment On Shiji Study Of Annotation

The Comment on Shiji by Niu Yunzhen is a paramount of critical literature for Shiji, since Ming Dynasty. It forces on the writing style of Shiji, as well as emotional part in Shiji. In special, the writer made an attention on the Si Maqian’s personal feelings, he put the "law" and "emotion" together, which makes a big difference than his previous scholars’ study, which is only forcing on the literature itself. From The Comment on Shiji, we can not only find the results from the former researches, but more importantly, a very special comment way was born: the writer picked up several interesting sentences and made comments on them, and used the comment way like The Aggregation of criticism on the Shiji. Also, in the end, the writer collected all kinds of commentaries on The Aggregation of criticism on the Shiji, and gave his own opinions.This paper contains four parts:The first part is the abstract, which mainly talks about the background of Shiji study. This is for further study on The Comment on Shiji. Besides, the propose, contains, methods, logics and importance of The Comment on Shiji study are discussed here.The second part is about the writer. The books he wrote are essential, we need to consider the political background when he wrote. Also, the examples in The Comment on Shiji have been analyzed and we also notice there are different versions of this book in the market.The third part is the most important part in this paper. It focuses on the specialties in The Comment on Shiji. The Comment on Shiji took a deep cut in the three fields, languish, stories and people. In languish part, the writer thinks it is elegant and concise, and he talked about different types of words and sentences; In story part, it is divided into two categories, rhetoric and writing skills; In people part, the writer showed us the vivid ancient people by decoding the emotional feelings, and the way they behave from Shiji.The fourth part mentions the importance of The Comment on Shiji in critical literatures of Shiji. This part simply introduces the definition and development of critical literature, and take a step further to Shiji. In addition, compared with Criticizing Articles of Records of History, by Wu Jiansi, the specialties and weakness of The Comment on Shiji are studied.