Ancient Chinese Historiography:Explaining History with Yi
In the development of ancient Chinese historiography,the interpretation of history by Yi has become an important mode for historians to explain their historiographic thoughts.The relationship between Yi and history originated from the unity of witch and history,and the historians had the status of witches for a long time,per-forming the function of divination.Zhouyi,as a record of the results of divination,had an unbreakable rela-tionship with the historians,who were involved in the compilation,preservation,and circulation of Zhouyi.Their explanations of the historical changes enriched Zhouyi greatly.Yi is the philosophical foundation of ancient Chinese historiography whose holistic thinking inspired the historiography of"investigating the inter-stices between heaven and mankind",the adaptability inspired the"understanding of the changes of the past and the present"and the"unanimity"inspired the various thinking of"becoming one family".The basic mode has two kinds,namely,the historical material perspective of Yi history and its historical thinking per-spective.While the former cannot explain the long-lasting Yi history,the latter can reveal the characteristics of Yi thinking in the its development by probing into the rich thinking techniques embedded in Yi science and the continuous ideological influence on ancient Chinese historiography.In its specific practice,historians of all times generally emphasized the rule of Yi,and they used the mode of interpreting history by Yi to elaborate historiographic thoughts by adopting"Yi said..."in history books and compiling works,and systematically e-laborated historiographic thoughts,such as the way of governance,the relationship between man and heaven,the changes of the past and the present as well as the moral and historical outlooks.
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