A Narrative Study Of "Historical Records: Annals Of Zhou

Among the twelve biographies of the Emperor of the Historical Records,Biographic Sketches of the Zhou Dynasty ranks fourth in chronological order.Compared with Biographic Sketches of the Five Emperors and the biographic sketches of the Xia Dynasty and the Yin Dynasty,Biographic Sketches of the Zhou Dynasty has richer historical materials,and the time span covers half of the Families and Biographies.As the general hub for studying heaven and man and linking ancient and modern times,the twelve biographies of the Emperor observe the end,and see the prosperity and decline,which is matched with meticulous narrative strategies.As a representative of them,Biographic Sketches of the Zhou Dynasty,its narrative significance and literary value cannot be ignored.Moreover,as the pinnacle of the administration of three generations,the Zhou Dynasty,whether it is based on agriculture,ruled the country with culture,and then collapsed and gradually declined,or the various heritages left behind,have great significance to future generations.We should respect the Zhou Dynasty.The first chapter recounts the history of the rise and fall of the Zhou Dynasty.The rise of the Zhou Dynasty part mainly describes the difficult and bumpy road to the rise of the ancestors of the Zhou ethnic group.From Houji to Gugong,they have been abandoned,lost political office,and forced to migrate,but they have firmly maintained the foundation of agriculture and completed a long and solid accumulation.The prosperity of the Zhou Dynasty,on the basis of food and clothing,educated the country with culture.During the reign of King Wen,the influence of the Zhou family further expanded.King Wu completed the great cause of conquering the Yin Dynasty,and Zhou Gong made rituals and music,and the country was peaceful when it was in the time of King Cheng and King Kang.The course of the Zhou Dynasty decline is a gradual decline with twists and turns,ups and downs,not a sudden death.There is enough buffer time and space for cultural development.The second chapter explores and analyzes the narrative meaning of Biographic Sketches of the Zhou Dynasty.In the history of the rise and fall of the narrative level,the process of the Zhou Dynasty has profound significance.The first is agriculture.The Zhou Dynasty completed the big change from focusing on the sky to focusing on the earth.Production and life are closely related to agriculture.The second is culture.The Zhou Dynasty changed the customs of the Yin Dynasty and focused on respecting morality and protecting the people.It has been influenced to this day.In addition to political influence,the civilization of ritual and music has been integrated into the blood of the Chinese nation and shapes the psychological structure of the ethnic group.In the end,the Zhou Dynasty inevitably went into decline,but the buffer zone formed by the profound accumulation of agriculture and culture made the process of Zhou’s decline and decline relatively mild,and accompanied by the Axial Age.The third chapter studys how Sima Qian wrote Biographic Sketches of the Zhou Dynasty.As a meaningful text,it takes the narrative of rise and fall and moral narrative as the main line,echoes the overall concept of the Historical Records,and links the relevant chapters of the Families and Biographies.Its organizational method cannot be ignored.In the first section,The Book of Poetry and Historical Records prove each other,taking The Book of Songs,Taiga,Shengmin as an example,to see how Sima Qian transformed literary expressions into rational and coherent historical words.In the second section,Sima Qian established his own narrative logic in the uneven distribution of historical materials that were both numerous and vacant,selected and deleted the filling content,added literary legend writing,and infused the moral spirit of the laws of later generations.In the third section,the method of mutual observation is not only the method of material organization,but also the way of thinking in the structure of the Historical Records.In the Biographic Sketches of the Zhou Dynasty,it is reflected as:mutual understanding with other chapters,internal mutual understanding,and mutual understanding with the overall spirit of the Historical Records.