Political History Character Of Records Of The Historian And Sima Qian' Political Thoughts

Sima Qian is a great thinker of Han Dynasty. Records of the Historian written by him widely involves each domain of social sciences, such as history, literature, economics, military science, including political domain. Records of the Historian produces in a period of great prosperity of Han dynasty. Having recuperated and multiplied in the first years of Han Dynasty, the national ecnomy had grown and the centralization of state power had obtained futher enhancement. So the country became powerful and prosperous. The records of such times in Records of the Historian has strong political intention to reality. This paper mainly inquires into the political characrer of Records of the Historian. We think Records of the Historian has intense political flavour in creational purpose: The figures of Records of the Historian are mainly political figures and the activities of those figures recorded by Records of the Historian are mainly political activities; the phenomena in Records of the Historian record are mainly political phenomena. Obviously Records of the Historian breeds abundant political thoughts. Based on this, we continue talking about the origin of Sima Qian'political thoughts, which we consider is absorbing and combining a hundred schools of thoughts: originating in Taoism; absorbing the essence of Confucian and Legalists; and establishing his own system. His political thoughts are mainly as below: establish a unified domain; take people as root; advocate benevolent government; appoint virtuous and talented people. The way of Sima Qian expressing his political thoughts is very unique, that he is not prove it through theory directly, but through historial events and facts. It persent as below:The first, he talk about politics through describing the history; The second, through describing the history he expressed his political view, and the third, he intentionly induced the lesson from politician and political affairs to inspire the later people. Hence, Records of the Historian is surely worthy of a outstanding and distinctive work of political history.