司马谈《论六家要指》极为推崇道家,司马迁不可能不受其影响,但同时司马迁又曾受教于董仲舒,曾有“余读孔子书,想见其为人”(《孔子世家》)的想法,在他那里,儒和道并不矛盾。老子的自然观,公羊学的天人观念与“李陵之祸”使得司马迁得以站在历史的高度冷静思考人与 Sima Talking about “Six Musts” highly advocates Taoism. Sima Qian could not be affected without it. However, Sima Qian was once taught Tung Chung-shu and had “read Confucius and think of others” (“Confucius” ) In his mind, there is no contradiction between Confucianism and Taoism. The concept of nature of Lao Tzu, the concept of the heaven and the human being in the ram school, and the “disaster of Li Ling” made Si Maqian able to calm people and people at the height of history