《史记》 / Shiji
《资治通鉴·周纪》04｜豫让 为智瑶复仇 uses 《史记》 through the 豫让 story in the assassins tradition. The important detail is Yu Rang’s explanation that he does not owe all patrons the same level of repayment: 智瑶 treated him as a “国士,” so his revenge follows patron-recognition reciprocity.
《史记》 / Shiji enters this wiki branch through 《资治通鉴·周纪》10丨 以家族单位 有蚂蚁吃大象的精神（1）, where the host uses it to supplement a blank 《资治通鉴》 year. The source says 周烈王’s second year has no Zizhi entry, then turns to the Shiji story of 太史旦 visiting 秦献公.
The page’s role is historiographical rather than encyclopedic. It marks a source-switching moment: when one chronicle is silent, another classical text may preserve a story, but the wiki should keep that evidentiary move visible.
《资治通鉴·周纪》10丨 以家族单位 有蚂蚁吃大象的精神（2） adds the reverse caution. The host says 司马光 may have followed 《史记》 when early Warring States chronology was already thin and disordered, so Shiji can be both a needed supplement and a source through which chronology drift enters later compilations.
Connections
- 《资治通鉴》 - chronicle being supplemented in the episode.
- 豫让, 智瑶, and Retainer Reciprocity Ethic / 士为知己者死 - assassins-tradition branch added by Zhouji 04.
- 太史旦 and 秦献公 - main Shiji story used by the source.
- Chronicle Source Gaps / 编年史料空缺 and Historical Detective Reasoning - source-reading frames.
- 秦国 and 周王室 - political setting of the Shiji passage.
- 《战国策》, 韩哀侯, and 严遂 - later source-variant branch around the Han assassination.