评班彪的《前史略论》

A Review of Ban Biao's QIANSHI LüELUN

班彪的《前史略论》是一篇最早的史学史论文,论及中国史上的史官、史家、史书、史学,略古详今,抓住有代表性的史家与史书(即司马迁与《史记》)作重点分析研究;着重于史家的思想倾向,并注意史家的撰史才能,肯定司马迁叙事行文准确、生动,可称“良史之才”。此论上承扬雄、下启班氏父子,标帜史学,具有重要的历史意义。

QIANSHI LUEELUN, written by Ban Biao, is a earliest thesis of the history of historical sicence. Outlining the past and giving today detailed account, this thesis is about the historiographers, historians, hisorical records and sicence. Ban Biao focused his mind on and analyzed the typical historian and historic book, namely, Shima Qian and his SHIJI. He payed a great attention to the thought inclination of the historians as well as their ability of recording history. He affirmed that Shima Qian narrated and wrote correctly and lively. He called Shima Qian as LiangShiZhiCai, gifted historian. In a word, this viewpoint, inheriting Yang Xiong＇s opinion and followed by Ban Gu, is accepted by everyone and has an important meaning in the study of historical sicence.