司马迁对中国文学的贡献

Si Maqian's Contribution to Chinese Literature

西汉史学家司马迁以文运事,用文学之笔塑造历史人物成为典型形象,从而创造了中国传记文学,因此,司马迁又是一位文学家。司马迁是创立中国文学理论的先驱者,语言巨匠,散文大家,他所写的史传人物是实录而不是虚构,但他做到了史笔与文笔的交融,对史传人物生活细节的遥情想象,高于生活,仿佛虚构,而合于实录之度,因此《史记》人物不是小说人物。

Si Maqian, the famous historian in the West Han Dynasty, uses literal method to record history and creates the typical literal characters of many historical figures with his literal talents and thus starts the style of Chinese biographical literature, therefore, Si Maqian is also a man of letters. He is the pioneer who put forward Chinese literature theory, master of Chinese language and the greatest prose writer. The biographies of the historical figures he describes are the historical records instead of inventions, but he successfully combined historical records and literal creation, and his imagination about the details of the historical figures＇life exceeds real daily life and seems to be invented, but accords with the demand of historical record, thus the figures in Records of the Historians are not literal characters.