"historical Records" Han "narrating Their Research History

Shiji and Hanshu are two monuments in Chinese historiograghy and literature.They created Chinese official history writing style, and deeply influenced later Chineseliterary. Hanshu followed Shiji in the history period from the beginning of Han Dynasty toEmperor Wudi of Han Dynasty, so the two books exist obvious similarities, but also havesignificant differences. Shiji and Hanshu in their respective studies have multitudeachievements, however systematical research on the two books are rare. This papercombines literature and history methods, focus on the history of Shiji and Hanshu's studiesand their narration. The whole paper is composed of three parts: sub-introduction, text andconclution.The sub-introduction part mainly discusses the forming of China's history narrativetradition, overview, and the significance and research approaches of this paper. Theconclusion part summarizes the whole paper. The text part is composed of two series,namely, the history of Shiji and Hanshu's studies, and the narrative research of the twobooks.The first series is divided into four chapters. This part aims to research how did theancient scholars study and learn Shiji and Hanshu, and discuss the ups and downs of thetwo books through diachronic study. Generally speaking, the research of before the TangDynasty focused on their advantages and disadvantages; The research of Tang and SongDynasty developed, and the ancient prose movement promoted the study of the two books,Shiji's status enhanced. The research of Ming Dynasty focused on comment, and QingDynasty on the textual criticism. Writers learned the two books in various fields. Modernresearch combined macroscopic and microcosmic study, becoming more and moresystematic.The second series is divided into seven chapters. This part adopts Chinese andwestern narratology theory to research Shiji and Hanshu's similarities and differences. Shijistarted biograghy style, it's general history. Hanshu followed Shiji, but is dynastic history.Both of Shiji and Hanshu record real history, but Shiji is more like a novel in some instent.As historical works, the requirement of objective reality determines their narrativeperspective mainly is the omniscient narration. Both of Shiji and Hanshu pay attention to the principle of entirety. Shiji and Hanshu's narrative language is also different. Shiji iseasy to read, it used a lot of repeated words and the sentences are not in order. However,Hanshu is hard to read, it looks much more neat. From the two books we can discover thetendency of Han's literature. The narrative feature of Shiji and Hanshu is also different,Shiji is full of passion, and Hanshu is implicit. Shiji is full of changes, and Hanshu is neat.Shiji demonstrates people's temperament, and Hanshu is full of ethics.