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History of Poetry (31): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: Sima Qian

author:Preface to Eastern Poetry and Calligraphy

In the thousands of years of civilization history of our country, there have been many people who have established sects in a certain field and who have achieved great achievements, and have become examples of reverence for future generations, and they have been respected as saints in the field of strategy. In the form of "Telling History with Poetry", I introduced to netizens the Most Holy Confucius, Yasheng Mencius, Wusheng Guangong, Poetry Saint Du Fu, Zi sheng Su Shi, Qu Sheng Guan Hanqing, and Shu Sheng Wang Xizhi. Today's introduction of "Shi Sheng Sima Qian", and then successively introduce Wen Sheng, Painting Sheng, Cao Sheng, Bing Sheng, Mou Sheng, Medical Sheng, Medicine Sage, Wine Sage, Tea Sage, Ke Sheng, Le Sheng, Chess Saint and other saints, once a day, please pay attention to appreciation. Poetry Cloud:

The Dragon Gate of the Birth Land was too Shi Gong, and he was humiliated and tortured by the palace.

His ambition turned into tears, and his belly had poetry and writing.

The huge works are singing, and there is no rhyme in the spring and autumn.

To know the rise and fall of a thousand years, the "Chronicle of History" should be the work of the sun and the moon.

History of Poetry (31): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: Sima Qian

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Note: Sima Qian, also known as Taishi Gong, was born in Longmen (present-day Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province), and was a famous historian of the Han Dynasty. When Sima Qian was twenty-eight years old, he served as Taishi Ling, inherited his father's business, and wrote history. In the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty, he interceded for Li Ling, who had defeated the Xiongnu, and was punished by the palace to anger Emperor Wu of Han. In prison, with the historical knowledge of "investigating the time of heaven and man, through the changes of ancient and modern times, into the words of a family", he overcame various difficulties and created China's first general history of the chronicle "History of History" (formerly known as "Taishi Gongshu"). The book records the huge works with a history of more than 3,000 years from the time of the Yellow Emperor in ancient legends to the four years of the first four years of emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and is the first of the "Twenty-Four Histories".

History of Poetry (31): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: Sima Qian

Lu Xun praised it as "the greatest song of historians, the departure of no rhyme". He died in 87 BC at the age of 58.

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