The Study On Rhetorical Ideology In Shi Tong

Although "Shi Tong" is a history book, it contains a wealth of rhetorical ideas. It mainly reflected in the following aspects:In "Shi Tong", Liu Zhiji proposed the basic principle of historian writing historical records——objective and truthful record. He discusses from the significance of writing history books, emphasizes the importance of objective and truthful record. The historians should always follow this principle. This requirement seems to have nothing to do with rhetoric. However, as long as a little thought, it will be found that if you do it in accordance with this requirement, you will go into the rhetoric of the world. If you want to do objective and truthful record, you must face the problems of portraying character, narrating events and recording language. These three questions are the narrative questions in the modern rhetoric. Around the principle of objective and truthful record, Liu Zhiji put forward the requirements of approaching fact and conciseness and gives a lot of valuable opinions of the language. These are contents of rhetoric. Meanwhile, Liu Zhiji stresses that whether record the historian's written word or character dialogue, we must be close to reality. What's more, Liu Zhiji believes that the rhetoric of history should take concise diction and as the guideline, With simple words to convey the rich contents.Liu Zhiji inherits Confucius' s view about Wen Zhi, balancing Wen and Zhi, with the Zhi as the main. Literary services to the Zhi of history. Can not be the pursuit of ornate words and the loss of historical narration. He advocates that the rhetoric of history is talent and not gorgeous, unadorned and not coarse.Liu Zhiji also enumerates many examples in history books to prove that some history books have the problems in tailoring historical data, language expression and narrative skills. He proposes some original and thought-provoking opinions. Meanwhile, there are some errors. In a word, "Shi Tong" is a book which contains important rhetoric thoughts, worth studying deeply in the field of rhetoric.