What are the achievements of Historical Records in narrative art?

Historical Records is a great milestone in China's narrative literature. Sima Qian first changed the narrative angle in the pre-Qin period, created biographical historical cases and various narrative methods, which laid the foundation for the development of narrative literature in later generations and became a model for scholars in previous dynasties to learn.

Exquisite narrative art

1, five-way connection. Synthesizing all kinds of styles in the history books of the previous generation, the general history of biographical style was founded. Eight books, ten watches, twelve biographies, thirty biographies and seventy biographies form a comfortable structure criss-crossing.

2, the character arrangement has both the name and the reality, echoing before and after. Biographies at all levels in Historical Records are arranged in chronological order, but they also take into account the internal relations between biographies and follow the principle of similar items.

3, tracing back to the source, the details are slightly harvested.

4. Clear organization.

Sima Qian used a variety of narrative methods in order to achieve "the statement of one family" and "the best article".

Save a pen when you meet.

The method of repeated accumulation and aging.

The method of ups and downs.

It's called lining.