Reading paves the way for the future
Tomorrow and the future self, I will thank myself today.
When reading a good book, it is like sitting in a time machine, returning to the author's era, watching how he grows step by step, observing the growth of great men up close, realizing how they are different from them, and then adjusting themselves step by step.
I still remember that when I was in school, I was particularly impressed by Sima Qian's writing of a masterpiece "Historical Records", a book that adopted a new style of compilation to re-present the history of more than 3,000 years from the Yellow Emperor in ancient times to the early period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
At that time, when I read history, I didn't seem to understand it.
Every time the teacher asks us to memorize, we always feel very painful, why did the ancients tell such a long story in a crepe.
Although I can't read it, I remember Sima Qian in my heart.
Now that I read Sima Qian's "Book of Reporting to Ren'an", I read an article and found that the process of reading it also answered many of my childhood doubts.
Everyone in the world knows that Sima Qian is extraordinary and wrote this masterpiece "Historical Records", but history also tells us that it was not easy for Sima Qian at that time, and it was only after several setbacks that he completed the compilation.
But why did Sima Qian have to write "Historical Records" in life and death, I saw it in the book "Report to Ren'an"!
He said: "When studying heaven and man, the changes of the past and the present have become the words of a family. ”
Sima Qian has a passion in his heart, hoping that the relationship between heaven and personnel will understand the process of historical development and evolution, find out the reason for the success or failure of the rise and fall of dynasties, and express his views and opinions with the help of the "History Book" written by himself.
The aspiring Sima Qian was destined to be extraordinary, and in the "Book of Reporting to Ren An", Ren An wrote to Sima Qian, asking Sima Qian to speak for himself.
At that time, Ren An was wronged and sentenced, and Sima Qian replied in the book that he was the Li Ling incident, in reply to Ren An's request for him to speak for him.
Originally, Sima Qian was a civil official, although he was not familiar with Li Ling, but he knew Li Ling's personality.
At that time, Li Ling fought with the Xiongnu on the battlefield with 5,000 infantry, until he was captured at the last moment, and later news came that Li Ling surrendered after being captured and became a traitor, and Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was furious, but sentenced all Li Ling's family.
It had nothing to do with Sima Qian, but Sima Qian couldn't bear it, when Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty asked Sima Qian, Sima Qian bluntly said that Li Ling in his eyes was definitely not a person who would surrender and rebel, and defended Li Ling with euphemism, and revenge, so he took revenge and was sentenced to death.
In the Han Dynasty, there were two ways to save oneself when sentenced to death, one was to ransom people with money, and the other was to be sentenced to palace punishment.
It is a pity that Sima Qian's parents were civil officials, and they were civil officials without oil and water, and they did not have any money on hand, and relatives and friends could not borrow money.
The ancients said: People are inherently dead, or lighter than a feather, or heavier than Mount Tai, how can they die, but people will be different because of the different aspirations they choose.
In Sima Qian's heart, more important than body and mind is the completion of the "Historical Records".
So he refused to give up his life easily, and in order not to let himself be sentenced to death, he chose the palace punishment.
Under the torture of suffering, he insisted on writing the "Historical Records". The indomitable persistence in completing what is in mind is really admirable.
I saw such an ambitious, unfair, and indomitable Sima Qian in the book, who can not admire it?
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