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The Shiji (Records of the Grand Historian), written by the Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, is about 526,000 Chinese characters long, making it four times longer than Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, and longer than the Old Testament.
This title was originally used to refer to any general historical text, although after the Three Kingdoms period, [note 1] Shiji gradually began to be used exclusively to refer to Sima Qian's work. In English, the title is variously translated as Records of the Grand Historian, [5] Historical Records, [6] The Grand Scribe's Records, [7] or ...
Although Sima Tan began writing the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), he died before it was finished; it was completed by his son, Sima Qian. The year of Sima Tan's death (110 BCE) was the year of the great imperial sacrifice fengshan by Emperor Han Wudi, for which the emperor appointed another person to the rank of fangshi, bypassing ...
Before compiling Shiji, Sima Qian was involved in the creation of the 104 BC Taichu Calendar 太初暦 (太初 became the new era name for Emperor Wu and means "supreme beginning"), a modification of the Qin calendar. This is the first Chinese calendar whose full method of calculation (暦法) has been preserved.
Secret of the Three Kingdoms is a 2018 Chinese television series based on the novel San Guo Ji Mi (三国机密; Secret of the Three Kingdoms) by Ma Boyong.Produced by Tangren Media and directed by Patrick Yau and Cheng Wai-man, the series starred Ma Tianyu, Elvis Han, Wan Qian, Dong Jie, Sunny Wang, Dong Xuan, Tan Jianci and Tse Kwan-ho in the leading roles.
The series was aired on CCTV-1 on 2 January 2005 to great enthusiasm from audience. While some liberties were taken with historical details, The Emperor in Han Dynasty was generally well received by viewers as a faithful portrayal of history.
Sima Qian's Shiji relates that upon appointment as administrator of Po, a province of Wei, Ximen Bao discouraged the local belief that the god of the river required a bride, and punished the local gentry and bureaucrats who took advantage of such superstitions. [9] Administrators across the region commonly took such actions, but Ximen Bao failed.