Historical
Preface to the Supplementary HistoryLittle Sima'sTaishi Gong, the good history of the ancients, the family inherits the two positive industries, the people should be the luck of five hundred, and the representative of the historian, personally in charge of the books, the spring and autumn pen, hurt the old classics. Therefore, it is intricate and intertwined, including records, the remains of the emperor, and the facts of the ministers. From the Yellow Emperor, to the Han Dynasty, the history is long, and the old chapters are rarely supplemented. Fishing and hunting are poor in the hundreds, the pen is cut into a family, the father is the son, and the diligence is to the end. However, its narrative is praised and discouraged, which is quite compromised, and the author of the latter is salty.
Since Zuo's time, there is no system, and Sima Gong has made up for the discipline and the scale, not for the book and the table. Looking at its book 12, like a week of the year star, there are eight articles in the eight books, eight sections of the law and the heavenly time, ten tables put rigidity and softness for ten days, thirty families have thirty days than the month, seventy columns pass on the twilight teeth of the suspension car, and one hundred and thirty articles are like leap more than one year. In the meantime, the etiquette and punishment are punishable, the monarch must write, the good and the bad are promiscuous, and the admonition is used. The matter is wide and the bureau, the quality of the words is smooth, and the Si is also perfect. And there are those who are not perfect, as in the aftermath. Although it was intended at the time, the righteousness was not scriptural, the history of the cover was not prepared, and the future learning was deeply doubtful. By such as the five emperors and the three emperors of this chronicle, the family contains the countries and has relatives, Di, Xu Chunqiu and the second country, omitted but not written, Zhang, Wu enemy country Fan Wang, or not contained, and cataloged with Que, stealing is not safe. It is also biography, there are Guan, Yan and Laozi, Han Fei, Guan, Yan Naiqi's Xianqing, that is, as an example, then Wu Zhiyanling, Zheng Zhizi, Jin Zhishu Xiang, Wei Zhishi Yu, Shengde is not que, what is Gaique? Boyang Qingxu is taught, Han Zijun engraving method, quiet and restless are different, moral punishment is sloppy, and now Yizhu Shigong Lacquer Garden is the same interpretation, Gongzi and Shangjun are juxtaposed, is it not good? Among them, they are close to perverse, the meaning of the words is staggered, or the chapters are wrong, or they praise the sins, and they cover the non-sins, and they are not flawed, so there are ten records but no books. However, its network is ancient and modern, narrating punishment and persuasion, and the subtlety of the different Zuo clan has the classic facts of southern history, so Yangxiong, Ban Gu and other salty people call it a talent with a good history, and they believe it.
Later, Chu Shaosun also added a lot of embellishments, but he still couldn't prepare for it. Zhenye Xie Yuanmen, people are not Bogu, and the family tradition is learning, quite a discussion, thinking about continuing to become a precursor, polishing the old history. The dethronement was lifted, the title was revised, and it was not prepared, and the classics were adopted to make up for the missing items.
The praise of its one hundred and thirty articles is not well known, and it is even more stated, and it is attached to the end of the articles. Although it is said to be crazy, there must be considerable, and the changes it has been changed are in order. As for Xu Guang, he only omitted the pronunciation training, remembered the similarities and differences, failed to assess right and wrong, and explained the text. His Pei Chushi is also a latecomer to the famous family, absorbing a group of books, specializing in the transmission and interpretation of the scriptures, thinking that it is a collection of explanations, but sometimes there are lengths, as for the intertwined roots, incomplete and incomplete, salty hands and not speaking, Si Wei can be described as a general study. Today, according to the ancient and modern, it is still based on Pei, and it is self-seen foolish, and it is re-annotated, called the history of Xiao Sima. However, the former dynasty Yan Shigu, stop the history of the Han Dynasty, and now it is called the Yan Han book. Although Zhen is not able to catch Yan Gong, he not only makes up for the old history, but also makes up for the new, so why not let go.