Historical Records is listed as the first of the "twenty-four histories", and it is also called "the first four histories" with Hanshu, Houhanshu and the History of the Three Kingdoms, which has had a far-reaching impact on the development of later historiography and literature. Historical Records is also an excellent literary work, which occupies an important position in the history of China literature. It is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme", which has high literary value.
The famous essay "Bao Ren An Shu" tells the story of his imprisonment because of the Li Ling incident, and expresses his grief and indignation at the loyalty and innocence.
The prose and feelings of the poem "Regret for the Past" can be presumed to be a summary of his tragic fate and life experience in his later years.
Role background:
Sima Qian (former 145 or former 135 ~ Kao) was born in Longmen (xia yang in the Western Han Dynasty, now hancheng city in Shaanxi Province, now Hejin City in Shanxi Province). Historians, writers and thinkers in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son was appointed Taishiling, and was called Shi Qian, Taishiliong and the father of history by later Buddhas.