Abstract:
The war text of the Yellow Emperor shows obvious traces of interlacing in the biographic scketches of five emperors, which partly reflects Sima Qian’s efforts to integrate various materials. The confusion and dissonance of the Yellow Emperor’s war records in the literature before Sima Qian reflects the confusion and disorder of our nation’s cultural memory about this period. Sima Qian tried to reconstruct the chaotic memory, he combined the battle of Yan Huang and the battle of the Yellow Emperor between Chi You, chooses the relationship between Yellow Emperor and Yan Emperor, Chi You, and thus reconstructs the Yellow Emperor image to “cultivate morality and train the military”.This reconstruction of memory is based on a unified political model, which embodies the need to remember the present, and shows Sima Qian’s admiration for the ideal emperor.
