Who are the two Sima in the Western Han Dynasty?

The article refers to Sima Qian and Sima Xiangru in the Western Han Dynasty. The former is a great historian and writer, who wrote China's first biographical style and Historical Records, which is the first in China's twenty-fifth history, and is known as "a historian's swan song, Li Sao has no rhyme". The latter was a famous writer of Ci and Fu in the Western Han Dynasty, and was later called "Fu Sheng" and "Ci Zong". He is the author of Preface Fu, Shang, Renda Fu, Changmen Fu and Beauty Fu.

Sima Qian's family has been a historian since Tang Yu and Zhou Dynasty. His eighth ancestor, Sima Cuo, was a military commander of the State of Qin. The sixth ancestor Sima Jin, the military commander of Qin; High-impedance Sima Chang was an iron-fisted official of the Qin Dynasty. Great-grandfather Sima Wu was the county magistrate of the Han Dynasty. Grandfather Sima Xi was named five heroes; Father Sima Tan was an official in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Sima Qian inherited his father's business, and served as Taishiling and Zhongshuling during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Before his death, his father entrusted him to write a historical biography from Three Emperors and Five Emperors to Hanwu. Therefore, Sima Qian never forgot his father's great trust and made a lot of preparations for writing this history book. In 99 BC, because the Han people surrendered to the Huns for Li Ling, Sima Qian argued for Li Ling at the court meeting, which angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and led to his imprisonment. Sima Qian wanted to die after being punished, but he swallowed his words at the thought of his father's last wish and wrote Historical Records eight years later. Sima Qian died at 55 when he wrote it.

Sima Xiangru, formerly known as Sima Changqing, was renamed because he admired Lin Xiangru, a famous minister of Zhao during the Warring States Period. Shi Zai, born in Chengdu, Sichuan, liked reading and practicing sword when he was young, and became a personal attendant of Emperor Wuqi of Han Jing in his twenties. Later, with the help of Liang Xiaowang and Liu Wu, he wrote Zixu Fu. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, he saw Zixu House and liked it very much. He thought it was written by the ancients, and lamented that it could not be contemporary with the author. Yang Deyi, the dog supervisor in Liu Che, said that this was written by people in this dynasty, and the author was my fellow countryman Sima Xiangru. Liu Che immediately called Sima Xiangru to Beijing, and Sima Po said to Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, "Zi Xu Fu" is nothing, please allow me to write a new Fu, so I quickly wrote "Shang Fulin", which is even better in literary talent. From then on, Sima Xiangru was named Lang Guan and died at the age of 1 18 BC.

There are two allusions related to Sima Xiangru. One is that Sima Xiangru lived in poverty before he was appreciated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Zhuo Wangsun, the rich man, whose female name is Wen Jun, peeped through the screen when she visited Zhuo Wangsun's house in Sima Xiangru because she was always charming. Pretending not to know, Sima Xiangru was invited to fiddle with a song "Phoenix Begging for Phoenix" to convey her love to Zhuo Wenjun. Two of a kind, a beautiful woman and a gifted scholar, eloped with him to Chengdu. Zhuo Wangsun was furious and said that his daughter violated etiquette and refused to give a dowry. Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun were penniless after their marriage, so they had to open a hotel. Zhuo Wenjun sold wine and Sima Xiangru wore an apron as a waiter. Zhuo Wangsun was deeply ashamed when he heard the news, so he had to give them 100 slaves and millions of copper coins.