Illustrate with examples that depicting characters in Historical Records is an artistic technique.

1, pay attention to language and detail description.

2. Use the method of comparison and contrast.

3. Carefully construct personalized conflicts.

Characters, modeling, artistic techniques and language details in Historical Records; Contrast and contrast; Personalized contradictions and conflicts.

Examples are as follows:

1. In Biography of Gaozu and Biography of Xiang Yu, Sima Qian used many detailed languages to describe characters, and these languages were very individual. For example, Xiang Yu saw Qin Shihuang's southern tour and blurted out, "He can take a place." Liu Bang apologized and said, "This is what Pei Gong Sajima and Cao Wushang said."

It serves to show his straightforward personality, and Liu Bangguan Qin Shihuang said in one breath: "Hey! A gentleman should be like this! " The words are euphemistic and tortuous, which can control his feelings and write his generous and generous character, although the weather is extraordinary. At the Hongmen banquet, Fan Zeng asked Xiang Zhuang to stab Pei Gong with his sword and said, "... if you don't do this, you will be caught."

Later, when Liu Bang fled, he said, "Those who took the title of Xiang Wang were praised repeatedly." . I belong to this! "Shows his wily character.

2. Contrast and contrast is one of the important ways to portray characters in China's ancient literary works. Sometimes the positive and negative characters set off each other, which makes the truth, goodness and beauty stand out more clearly in the contrast between the false and the ugly. Sometimes two types of characters with different styles are compared, such as green leaves and red flowers, to make the central character brighter and more dazzling. This technique is used to describe Li Guang in Historical Records Biography of General Li.

In Historical Records, Sima Qian told stories of characters' words and deeds all his life, and the historical movement was dissolved in these stories. Contradictions and conflicts are the basis of the story and the key to show the character. Without contradictions and conflicts, there would be no stage for people's activities, and there would be no reason to express their individuality.

One of the experiences of portraying characters in Historical Records is to carefully construct personalized contradictions and conflicts. Through some intense scenes of struggle, the characters are quickly pushed to the forefront of contradictions and conflicts, so that the characters can show their courage, moral quality, holiness and filth of the soul in the fierce conflicts, that is, show their personality characteristics.

Extended data:

Historical Records (Sima Qian's Biographical Historical Works):

Historical Records is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in the history of China, recording the history of four years and more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty. In the first year of Taichu (BC 104), Sima Qian began to create Taishi Gongshu, later called Shiji. It took 14 years before and after its completion.

Historical Records includes twelve biographies (recording the political achievements of emperors in past dynasties), thirty biographies (recording the rise and fall of vassal states and governors in Han Dynasty), seventy biographies (recording the words and deeds of important people, mainly describing the characters and ministers, and the last one is the preface), ten tables (chronology of major events) and eight books (recording various laws and regulations, such as etiquette, music, temperament, calendar, astronomy, etc.).

Historical Records is listed as the first of the "twenty-four histories", and it is also called the "first four histories" with the later Hanshu, Houhanshu and the History of the Three Kingdoms, which has had a far-reaching impact on the development of later historiography and literature. His original biographical method of compiling history was passed down by the "official history" of later generations.

Historical Records is also an excellent literary work, which occupies an important position in the history of China literature. It is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme", which has high literary value. Liu Xiang and others think that this book is "good in order and reason, argumentative but not flashy, qualitative but not vulgar".

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