| Abstract |
As far as the research on Sima Chengzhen is concerned, the academic scholars have always given priority to his thought and works while only making a brief description of his life. Actually there are plenty of related historical information and documents about his life, and they are considerably different from and contradictory to one another. It is a pity that Sima Chengzhen’ s life is often concisely depicted in the common treatises which are confined to differently-emphasized subjects. Hoping to survey Sima Chengzhen’ s life and thinking background more ixtensively and completely, I, on the basis of the present available research achievements, try to make use of various historical information and documents to in detail survey Sima Chengzhen’ s personal information, knowledge sources, life, companions, being summoned by the emperor, death, and passing down his doctrines and skills. In addition, an appendix of the biographic information about Sima Chengzhen in all the past dynasties is attached at the back of the book to be the future researchers’ reference.
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