论《史记》描写传主轶事的意义

The Significance of Anecdote Descriptions of the Hero in Records of Historians

司马迁描写历史人物传记的一个显著特点,就是善于描写人物发迹前的一个或几个轶事,以小见大,揭示出人物的性格特点、志趣爱好或未来的发展,这种写法,对当代传记文学塑造人物形象有很大的借鉴意义。

In order to reveal the character of the hero,Sima Qian tended to explore one or two anecdotes,which happened before their success.The way of depiction is worth absorbing in modern biographic literature.