Literary Thoughts Reflected in Fan Ye’s History of the Eastern Han Dynasty
Fan Ye’s History of the Eastern Han Dynasty has been honored as one of the four earlier historical books, and it is not only a splendid great work but also has high literary value. Fan Ye had made biographies for many literature scholars in Eastern Han Dynasty and recorded the numbers of their works and literary style. This paper analyzes the cataloging styles, the works and the writer's tasting of History of the Eastern Han Dynasty, elucidating not only the importance of Fan Ye’s attention to the social function of work, but also the idea of literature mining characteristics of the situation.