What are the literary and historical values of Historical Records? !

Literary value:

Historical Records, as China's first large-scale work focusing on describing characters, provides an important foundation and various possibilities for the development of future generations' literature. In terms of drama, due to the strong drama, distinctive characters and sharp contradictions, Historical Records has naturally become a treasure house for future generations. In the aspect of biographical literature, because the biographical style of Historical Records is inherited by future generations, a large number of biographies of historical figures have been produced.

Historiography value:

Historical Records is the first historical masterpiece in the history of Chinese historiography, covering hundreds of generations, and has established an independent position of historiography and a literary tradition of historical biography.

Extended information:

The Book of Five Emperors, the opening of Historical Records, explains the country's initial creation, and Sima Qian shows that the Yellow Emperor, Zhuan Xu, Di Ku, Tang Yao and Yu Shun are in the same line, which describes the process of continuous evolution of history and continuous improvement of national construction, and shows Sima Qian's historical view of development, evolution and change.

Sima Qian positioned Historical Records as a moral and ethical classic based on the Spring and Autumn Annals, and his ideological system is two "principles": one is to establish laws for the later kings, and the other is to establish rules for human relations. Sima Qian summarized all kinds of interpersonal relationships in the whole society as: monarch, minister, father and son.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Historical Records

Reference: People's Daily Online-Historical Records is a historical masterpiece and a treasure trove of governing the country.