Life needs watchers, just like a forest needs foresters and a lighthouse needs tower keepers. Although their figures are always lonely, watchers stick to their own spiritual garden and they are always in step with the trend of the times. Maintaining the same distance, they always stand at the source of the spirit to observe history and learn from the past. They care about spiritual value more than material value

Lewis Thomas

Quotation If there is no one Provide us with the lessons of failure and we will get nowhere. The trajectory of our thinking is to choose between right and wrong, and the frequency of wrong choices is equal to that of right choices

Sima Qian

Suffered castration and wrote "Historical Records" angrily

If Sima Qian wants to adhere to the spirit of "real records", he must face reality and record reality, which inevitably leads to "taboo" issues. However, when he wrote biographies of characters, he was not bound by the conventions of traditional historical records, but recorded according to his own thoughts and feelings about historical facts. Sima Qian wanted to provide historical reference for feudal rulers and reflect the true history, which is very valuable. In the spirit of actual records, when Sima Qian selected characters, he did not select characters based on their official positions or social status, but based on their actual behavioral performance. Sima Qian's progressive view of history and his bold style of daring to expose the emperor's mistakes deserve recognition. His thoughts on the evolution of history are also relatively complete. After giving a correct evaluation of history, he fully affirmed the conclusion that history is constantly developing and evolving.

After being innocently persecuted, a person usually has two choices: either to be pessimistic or depressed, or to become angry and strong. Sima Qian chose the latter path. With the purpose of "studying the relationship between heaven and man, understanding the changes of ancient and modern times, and becoming a family", he poured all the "anger" in his heart into the creation of historical records. Sima Qian created the original biographical genre of Chinese historical works and created a new style in historical methods. Sima Qian recorded history in the form of personal biography and chronicle, focusing on society, and presented a large-scale history of social changes to future generations. No matter in history or literature, Sima Qian has made glorious achievements.

His great patriotism and noble personality will always shine with immortal light.