A Research Of Qian Zhongshu’s Historical Thought

Firstly, according to the current study situation of Qian zhongshu’s historical thought, Qian zhongshu’s literary thought has been discussed by most scholars, but the study of the historical thoughts are still lacking. Qian zhongshu’s historiography research is significant. His academic thought has fused cast ancient and modern, through from Chinese to western. His characteristics of academic thought spark s in his life writings.The author catches Qian zhongshu’s academic thoughts and his origin to analyze the origin and development and summed up his academic characteristics:Qian zhongshu’s academic life beginning from the baptism of family collection, and Qian zhongshu’s academic personality is being good at traditional introduction. He quotes and will mind all memories about understanding thoroughly. Another important personality is practically to evaluate the ancient Chinese traditional historiography and historian.Then, introduce, analyze his historical thought through the embodiment of several problems of Qian zhongshu historiography thought research:One is "get through". Qian zhongshu’s historiography thought is both literature and history. The second is to "breakthrough", we should read history from before to back contacted, and compare the advantages with the disadvantages. The third is horizontal comparison, We need to compare Chinese with western historiography according to each others. Four is dealing with historical materials to uphold the principle of "truth" and "elegant".Next, the author tries to construct Qian zhongshu’s historical system by modern views. Qian zhongshu agree with Du Yu’s opinion about adhering to the traditional Chinese historiography spring and autumn to five cases. He think history recording should continue to uphold this principle. The people who read history books and record in the study should cycle and nuanced to their thoughts at the same time, so that their research style tend to be more rigorous. When talking about the problem of "faithful historical account", Qian zhongshu thought history is not to believe at all, and you should record the history while trust something and deny another parts. Qian zhongshu is promoting Sima Qian’s history, especially of Sima qian said, remember this from Qian zhongshu for "Shi Han " problems can be concluded that the analysis. Qian zhongshu was not to analysis from the perspective of history of Sima qian and Ban Gu’s said, but he is good at starting from his literature to explore the difference between shiji and hanshu. This also reflected from the side Qian zhongshu commonly used literature method to consider the history academic characteristics of the problem.