Research Of "Grand Astrologer Said" In History Record

"Grand astrologer said" are the coclusions of Sima Qian's researching on"from nature to people and the evelution from ancient to modern".It also an important part of Sima Qian's"My own ideolegical system".This article focuses on the following four aspects of " Grand astrologer said " for further discussion.Before "Grand astrologer said" of Historical records,history comment had been in existance in various forms for a long time. Its apperance frequency increased gradually in history books, indicating that the consciousness of historians'comment had inscreased.Its length inscreased gradually,problems analyzing became more comprehensive and profound.History comment inclueded more and more contents. On basis of previous, Sima Qian developed it into a style in writing history.As a historian, Sima Qian made positive and direct comment for the first time."Grand astrologer said" expresses Sima Qian's rich ideologial orientation,forming systematic and comphrehensive understanding to some problems. Sima Qian expressed principles of writting history on his own wiew. Sima Qian comprehensively discussed and analysed the main factors which decide a person's success or failure.Expressing political views is one of importanrt part of "Grand astrologer said" . At the same time, Sima Qian revealed shortcomings and the dark sides of human nature."Grand astrologer said" itself has achieved a certain degree of artistic achievement. It's main embodies his argument and lyrical characteristics. Variety of arguments methods are used in "Grand astrologer said" . It has flexible reasoning,clear expression and complete structure . Sima Qian is also adept at guiding the reader's thinking.Both on emotion and cognition he forms consensus with readers. And he uses much expression techique. Most of "Grand astrologer said" contact with the biographies closly and play certain artistic roles.Some of them are summaries of the persons in biographies. Some of them are extension and expansion of the content,which make thebiographies more comprehensive and profound understanding.Some of them are sublimation and crystallization of Sima Qian's personal feelings expressing.His emotions becomes "hidden" in the biography to "obvious" here.