Historical
Preface to the Justice of Historical RecordsZhang ShoujieShi reporter, Ma Qianzuo of Han Taishi Company. Moved to Longmen, cultivated the Yang of the rivers and mountains, traveled to the south to the river and Huai, lectured on Qi and Luzhi County, Shao Taishi followed the Spring and Autumn Period, including the history of Wen Lu, and Bao Zuo, Chinese, adopted Shiben, Warring States Policy, and Chu Han Spring and Autumn, Guanyu Sutra, Biansou Shizi, up Xuanyuan, down to Tianhan. Twelve books, the rise and fall of the emperor are detailed. Thirty families, the survival of the monarchy. Eight books, praise yin and yang etiquette. Ten tables, fixed generations of annual seals. Seventy columns, the sincerity of loyal ministers and filial sons. The pen is crowned in the historical books, and the title is enough to pass through the state. Pei Chuan obeys his good order and reasoning, arguing but not flashy, quality but not slang, his straightforwardness, his core, not false beauty, not hidden evil, so it is called a real record. Since Liu Xiang and Yang Xiong, they are all known as talents in good history. The grave is annihilated, and the brochure is missing. Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period, the rhetoric is ancient. Fang Zhi Han and the two Hans, the province of literature and reason. He has been studying for more than 30 years. Six books and nine streams, the land is elegant, and he is keen to observe and comment on history and Han, interpret the public and do justice. The county and the city, the commission is declared, the classical is subtle, the beauty of the eavesdropping, the purpose of the second old book, and the annotation of the sound, which leads to the passage of thirty volumes. The name is historical justice. Give full play to the anointing words, and think about the sea of vicissitudes. did not dare to go to the secret mansion, hoping to discipline and flow together. The descendants of the Shu Yi Turks, the history of the world. In August of the twenty-fourth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the year was completed.