The Research On The Matters Of "Historiographer' Words"

Content: "Historiographer' words" is a kind of genre in which Sima Qian expressreference on historical events, often with a strong flavor of emotions.The research on"Historiographer' words" is an important part of Shi Ji. The paper and monographdelivered by former scholar synthetically discussed each aspect of "Historiographer'words", which had made a good progress. Forever, it generally focused on literature,ideology, art. Scholars rarely set foot in clearing up the precondition issue about theresearch on "Historiographer' words" by the numbers. For example, the issue on whois Taishi Gong; how many "Historiographer' words" are there in Shi Ji; whether thearticle Sima Tan left existed in "Historiographer' words". Sima Tan' words are said toappear in the conclusions of some chapters in Shi Ji. This does not necessarily anddefinitely verify the proposition, for it is natural in those days that a father' words arequoted by his son in latter's book. So the proposition that Sima Tan wrote historycannot be confirmed for it lacks sufficient evidence."Historiographer' words" is an established genre, this chapter deals with theorigin of "Historiographer' words". "Historiographer' words" has a long standing ofsimulating history officials' practice of creating styles talking about politics, whichhas its direct borrowing from the formula of "gentlemen observe" in The Biographyof Zou.Compliment commentary has also fused into it the practice of what the lastchapter of sacral odes commonly has, but it was not until Sima Qian's works came outthat finally make the genre perfectly.How many "Historiographer' words" are there inShi Ji is statistical, and distinguish ed the altered word in "Historiographer' words"and continuation from Sima Qian; the styles should he based on the definition andcategory but not the positions of "Historiographer's words".What Tai Shi Gong said has a particularly merit in Historiography and literarily,the research on "Historiographer' words" in depth is significative. Forever, moreparticularly and embedded research on "Historiographer' words" needs todifferentiate all the issues above.