司马迁在写作《史记》的过程中大量利用当时和前代的档案,已为很专家所证实。其实,《史记》成书之后,甚至在它传世一千多年后的今天,仍与档案有不解之缘。司马迁虽为太史令多年,但由于客观条件和精力所限,不可能网罗到历代所遗留的全部档案史料,先秦档案材料尤其缺乏,所以他不时发出文献史料不足的感叹。 Sima Qian in the writing of “Historical Records” in the process of extensive use of current and previous generations of files, has been confirmed by very experts. In fact, after the publication of the Records of the Historian, even today, more than a thousand years after its publication, it still has an indissoluble bond with the archives. Although Sima Qian had been a member of the Taishi Order for many years, it was impossible to trace all the historical records left over from generation to generation due to the limited objective conditions and energies. In particular, the archives of the pre-Qin period were especially scarce. Therefore, he occasionally lamented the lack of historical documents.