Incorporating Literature Into History

The literature and history in Nan Dynasties greatly flourished. The literature leaned gradually to the pursuit of language form, the exact description and the new change. With diversification of the sort and the type, the historical works increased. Most of the scholars focused on writing books aiming at fame.The historians in Nan Dynasties wrote history with the literary mind. On the one hand, they adopted the artistic techniques of poem and parallel prose in history, which was vividly embodied in the expositions, argumentations and words of praise. On the other hand, they abstracted the content and narrative skill of novels and miscellaneous biographies, which put a lot of vitality into the narrative of historical works. In summary, the historical works in Nan Dynasty characterized with magnificent and delicate language and vivid tone in biography and narration, which was influenced by the ideology and aesthetic interest. These characters indicate the personality and literary talent of the authors. Objecting on the three official historical works in Nan Dynasties Book of Later Han Dynasty, Song Annals and Nan Qi Dynasty, The research analyses their writing motivation, text characteristic and developing trend, which is devoted to clarify the literary charm of these works.