Zhao Yougan's Translation of "Three Families of Jun Sin"

Zhao Yougan's crime of following the three clans of Wang Zhao.

I. Original text

It is time for the Han Dynasty to issue an imperial edict: "Zhao Yougan offended the three clans with the king." Only Shu Meng, Shu Tian and so on. More than a dozen people dressed themselves up and made pliers, calling them king slaves. I worked hard to figure things out, and ao concluded that Xuanping Hou was abolished, but more than ten people, including him, were persuaded to go.

Second, translation.

At this time, the imperial edict of the Han Dynasty said, "Zhao dares to commit crimes against the three families with the people of Zhao Wang." Only, and a dozen people in red shaved their heads and locked their necks, calling them Zhao Jianu. After the matter of Guan Gao was clarified, Zhao Wang Zhang Ao was able to come out of the mountain and was abolished as Xuanping Hou, so he told the emperor that there were more than ten people such as Shu Tian.

Third, the source

Sima Qian's Historical Records Biography of Shu Tian in the Western Han Dynasty

Introduction of works

Historical Records includes twelve biographies (recording the political achievements of emperors in past dynasties), thirty biographies (recording the rise and fall of vassal states and governors in Han Dynasty), seventy biographies (recording the words and deeds of important people, mainly describing the characters and ministers, and the last one is the preface), ten tables (chronology of major events) and eight books (recording various laws and regulations, such as etiquette, music, temperament, calendar, astronomy, etc.).

There are * * * 130 historical books with more than 526,500 words, which is more than 395,000 words in Huainanzi and 288,000 words in 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.