In Records of the Historian

there is a dominating idea that the scholar dies for his bosom friend. On the one hand

with the use of this concept

Sima Qian’s purposely vivified his characters and conveyed his strong feelings

which in the meanwhile showed his deep sighing over the fickleness of human friendship. On the other hand

such a concept also reflects the fact that in the long history of “human’s waking up”

people’s sense of loneliness became stronger and stronger and their desire for bosom friends became more and more intense.