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《过秦论》 / Guo Qin Lun

《过秦论》 / Guo Qin Lun enters this wiki branch through 《资治通鉴·秦纪》109-2|春申君被皇帝大舅哥全族灭门 as the 贾谊 essay cited for its favorable description of the 战国四公子. The episode quotes the essay’s praise that the lords were wise, loyal, generous, humane, and respectful of worthy people.

The page’s wiki role is historiographical. In the episode, the essay does not settle whether the Four Lords were objectively admirable; it shows how early Western Han anti-Qin explanation could make eastern aristocratic patrons look like positive counterweights to Qin. That favorable frame is then contrasted with 扬雄, 司马光, and 《资治通鉴纲目》.

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