The Research On The Pre- Qin Days Historiographer

The accounting way of the Chinese ancient books and the historiographer system both originated from the Pre In Days. The ancient Chinese culture stemed from the Pre- Qin Days.The archaeology results show that the ancient Chinese culture mainly originated and developed in the Pre- Qin Days, among which the historiographer culture was most prominent.Including their charectors and lows the ancient Chinese historiographer system and the historiography development based on the historiographer establishment and the history accounting ways.Only by deeply mastering the establishment and the function of the historiographers,Can we know better the development and variations of the ancient historiographer system, so do on the research of Chinese history and the development of the historiography.This paper focuses on the establishment and the vary functions of the Pre- Qin Days by researching the records on the oracle inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties on tortoiseshells or animal bones,the inscriptions on ancient bronze objects and the historical documents of the Pre- Qin Days,such as Zuo Zhuan, Guo Yu,etc. there are three parts in this paper.The first part is about the historiographers accounted on the documents and the archaeology materials.The author collects and sorts out the materials on the inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties on tortoiseshells or animal bones, the inscriptions on ancient bronze objects and the inscriptions on the bamboo slips.To express clearly,the author makes a chart about them.The second part is about the establishment and function of the historiographers in the Pre-Qin Days.firstly,the author classifies and counts the historiographers,some principal historiographers' characters on establishment and functions analysed. The following are the charactors.The establishment of the historiographer varified because the times changed, the historiographers function split up,or the political necessarily requsted.Secondly,some historiographers owened several forms of address.Thirdly,the historiographers' functions were not clearly.The third part is about the historiographer culure.The historiographers culture refers to the culture which created by the intellectuals who were represented by the historiographers from the remote times to the Qin and Han Dynasty. The mostoutstanding sign was the depart of "Tian Dao"and "Ren Shi".With time went on ,the former became weker and weker while the latter became more and more important. The function included Tian Dao and Ren Shi ,though it was much complicated. Which the two parts" proportion changed, the historiographer culture took the wizard culture instead ,making the historiographer culture base on human beings,which deeply affected the Chinese culture.