Introduction to the attractions of Sima Qian's Temple of Han Taishi in Weinan City:
Sima Qian's Temple is located in Nanyuan, Zhichuan Town, 1 kilometers south of Weinan City, and more than 1 kilometers away from Xi 'an. The whole temple was built on the towering Long Ting site, overlooking the Yellow River Beach in the east, pillow Liangshan in the west, vertical walls in the north, deep valleys in the south, and ancient chariots and horses under it. With a high vision, it is magnificent, and the cultural relics in Guanzhong are the most in Hancheng, especially in Sima Qian's temple.
Sima Qian, a famous historian, writer and thinker in the Western Han Dynasty, is now a native of Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, and the son of Sima Dan, an imperial official. After he was twenty years old, he began to travel around the country, collecting legends and inspecting customs everywhere.
In 18 BC, when he was appointed as a Taishiling, he had to read the books of historians. He read the books in the palace and collected information for five years. He began to write Historical Records in 14 BC. Later, he was sentenced to corruption by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty because of Li Ling's case, but he survived strongly. At the age of 55 (91 BC), he finally completed the historical masterpiece Historical Records, which was a masterpiece. Lu Xun once praised Records of the Historian as a masterpiece of historians.