司马迁 / Sima Qian

Sima Qian appears in 164.古文的力量：请收下这份千年未变的深情、洞见和勇气 both as the historian behind the [[HongmenYan|《鸿门宴》]] narrative and as one of the examples [[SuZhe|苏辙]] invokes when discussing how prose “气” is cultivated by seeing the world. The episode therefore uses him as both source authority and model of expansive experience.

The most important source claim is historiographical. QinZong notes that Sima Qian still places [[XiangYu|项羽]] in the imperial annals despite his brutality and ultimate defeat, because Xiang Yu changed history and retained a kind of moral face that a purely success-based account would miss.

Connections

• [[HongmenYan|《鸿门宴》]] - narrative scene discussed in the episode.
• [[XiangYu|项羽]], [[LiuBang|刘邦]], [[ZhangLiang|张良]], [[FanZeng|范增]], and [[FanKuai|樊哙]] - figures in the source reading.
• [[ShangShumiHanTaiweiShu|《上枢密韩太尉书》]] and [[SuZhe|苏辙]] - “养气” and experience branch.
• Moral Face Under Power Competition / 权力竞争中的要脸, Historical Detective Reasoning, and Classical Prose Reading / 古文阅读 - interpretive frames.