“士为知己者死”辨

On “The Scholar Dies For His Bosom Friend”

“士为知己者死”的文化观念源远流长。在《史记》中 ,司马迁有意利用这种观念来传神人物、渲染情感 ,同时鉴于自己遭祸之时、亲朋不救的遭遇发出哀怨与激愤之辞 ,表达了对西汉时期人情伪诈、世态炎凉的深沉感慨。另一方面 ,这种文化精神的演变反映了在“人的觉醒”的历史长河中 ,人的孤独意识愈来愈沉重、人对知己的渴求愈来愈强烈的事实。

In Records of the Historian, there is a dominating idea that the scholar dies for his bosom friend. On the one hand, with the use of this concept, Sima Qian's purposely vivified his characters and conveyed his strong feelings, which in the meanwhile showed his deep sighing over the fickleness of human friendship. On the other hand, such a concept also reflects the fact that in the long history of “human's waking up”, people's sense of loneliness became stronger and stronger and their desire for bosom friends became more and more intense.