元狩六年(前117年),23岁的大司马大将军、冠军侯霍去病薨逝。关于他的死因,流传较广的说法有病死、在匈奴染上瘟疫、退隐三种,但是这些都经不住推敲。首先,史书中从未有霍去病身体不适的记载,而且与霍去病同一时期的史学家司马迁关于此事的记载也颇值得玩味。他在《史记》中只用了一个“卒”字来写霍去病之死,却详细记载了汉武帝为霍去病举行盛大葬礼的全过程。以其写史的态度,这只能解释为他根本就不知道霍去 Yuen hunting six years (117 years ago), 23-year-old general Sima Da, champion Hou Huo died of illness. About his cause of death, spread widely narrative died, in the Hunts contracted the plague, retreat three, but these are unsustainable. First of all, there has never been any record of physical discomfort in the history books, and historians Sima Qian, a historian in the same period as Huo Qu-yang, were also quite pondering about the matter. He used only one “dynasty” in the “Historical Records” to write about the death of Huo Qubing, but recorded in detail the whole process of Han Wudi’s grand funeral for Huo Qubing. In his attitude of writing history, this can only be explained as he did not know Huo