Revolutionary mentor Marx: If we choose a career that can best work for human welfare, then the burden can't overwhelm us, because it is dedicated to everyone; At that time, what we felt was not pitiful, limited and selfish fun. Our happiness would belong to millions of people, and our cause would exist silently but forever. Facing our ashes, noble people would shed tears
Sima Qian, who obeyed his father's will, determined to write a history book that could be "a famous mountain hidden, passed on to others". In the seventh year when he started writing this history book, The case of Li Ling happened. Li Ling, the general of the Second Division, was defeated and surrendered because he was outnumbered in a war with the Huns. Sima Qian defended Li Ling, angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was arrested and imprisoned, and suffered cruel "corruption".
After accepting the model, he tried to commit suicide because of humiliation and pain, but he thought that his ideal of writing history books had not been completed. So he stood up and endured humiliation for 18 years. Finally, it was written as Historical Records. This great work is * * * 526,5 words, which is the first in the general history of biographical style in China. The historical materials are rich and informative, and it has always been highly praised by people. Lu Xun once spoke highly of Historical Records in a very general language: "A historian's swan song, without rhyme."