The voice of northern customs, an idiom in China, is pronounced as běi bǐ zhī yīn, which means music in the Yin period. Later generations regarded it as the voice of national subjugation. Also known as the voice of the north. Historical records from Le Shu.
Historical Records is one of the twenty-four histories, formerly known as Taishi Gong Shu or Taishi Gong Gong Ji. It is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and the first biographical general history in China history.
The work has written a history of more than 3,000 years from the time of the Yellow Emperor in ancient legends to the four years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Sima Qian started writing this book in 104 BC, and it took 14 years to complete it.
Historical Records includes 12 biographies (records of emperors' achievements in past dynasties), 30 biographies (records of the rise and fall of princes and nobles in vassal states and Han dynasties), 70 biographies (records of important people's words and deeds, mainly describing people and ministers, with the last one as the preface), 10 tables (chronology of major events) and eight books (rituals, laws, calendars, astronomy, meditation and so on).
Historical records 130, with more than 526,500 words, 395,000 words more than Huainanzi and 288,000 words more than Lv Chunqiu. Historical Records has a huge scale and a complete system, which has a far-reaching impact on the biographical history books of later generations. The official history of past dynasties was written in this genre.
Content introduction:
Historical records are divided into five parts: biography, table, book, family and biography. Among them, biography and biography are the main body. It takes emperors and other political center figures in history as the main line of compiling history books, and the division of labor in various styles is clear.
Among them, "biography", "family" and "biography" account for most of the book's length, and all of them record history with writing characters as the center. As a result, Sima Qian created a new style of history books-"Biography".
This chronicle is the outline of the whole book, which records the words and deeds of emperors according to the time of year and month. Five of them recorded the history of pre-Qin, followed by the five emperors of Xia, Yin, Zhou and Qin. There are seven articles recording the history of Qin and Han Dynasties, followed by Qin Shihuang, Chu Xiangyu, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Gao Zhi, Han Heng, Han Jingdi Liu Qi and Emperor Wudi.