Qin and Han · Historian and Writer

Grand Historian 太史公

Taishigong

Attested BC 108 - BC 91

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Grand Historian was a historian and Writer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 108 to BC 91 太史公曰
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 115-118

Career and standing

Grand Historian 太史公
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 115

Places and affiliations

Polity Han 漢 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 115

Works and attributed material

the Grand Historian's three tales 太史公之三章
Relation Author
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 121
Historian comment · Author · Direct quotation · Extent s0115, s0116, s0117, s0118
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passages 115-118

Events and relationships

Relation Predecessor author of · Person Master Chu (褚先生)
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 121

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Records of the Grand Historian 126, passage 115

References in the histories

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 126Biographies of Jesters · 2 passages

太史公曰：淳于髡仰天大笑，齊威王橫行。 The Grand Historian remarks: Chunyu Kun threw back his head and laughed to the heavens, and King Wei of Qi marched unchallenged across the land.

可以覽觀揚意，以示後世好事者讀之，以游心駭耳，以附益上方太史公之三章。 These may be perused for amusement and edification, and offered to curious readers of later ages for the pleasure of the mind and the surprise of the ear — appended here as a supplement to the Grand Historian's three tales above.