《史记》“卜筮决于天命”思想浅析

Analyse briefly the thought that "divination is in God's Will" in "Historical Records"

易筮作为古代预测手段,在古代有着重要的地位。龟卜,在西汉时本来已经逐渐消失,但司马迁以专篇收录散失的卜辞,这正好说明卜筮这种文化现象的重要性。探究司马迁记载卜筮的原因,除了卜筮在当时具有重要的政治地位以外,还因为司马迁想通过卜筮等神秘文化来实现“究天人之际”的写作目的。

Book-of-changes-divining as an ancient predicting has an important position in the ancient times.The tortoise-divining had already faded during the Western Han Dynasty,but Sima Qian collected the lost divining inscriptions with the page specially,which just states the importance of this kind of culture phenomenon.Probing into the reason that Sima Qian records divination,except that divination had an important political position at that time,because Sima Qian wanted to realize the writing purpose of 'probing into the relation between god and people' through mysterious culture such as divination also.