一郁达夫在《什么是传记文学》一文中说:“传记”就是“记载事迹,以传于世”。(见郑振铎、傅东华编《文学百题》)“传记”这种文体的任务是记载某些特定人物的生平事迹,并透过这些人物的生活历程,观察到当时的社会风貌,从而探索历史兴衰存亡的规律,作为借鉴。而因人立传,集传成史也就成为我国立史的传统。数量众多的人物传记,就象璀灿夺目的奇珍异宝一样,在我国古代的文化宝库中,焕发出独特的光华。古代人物传记,最早见于《左传》、《国语》、《战国策》等先秦的历史典籍中。这些著作主要是记载春秋战国时期各国发生的重大 One Yu Dafu in the “What is biographical literature,” a text that: “Biography ” is “record deeds, to pass on to the world ”. (See Zheng Zhenduo and Fu Donghua, “A Hundred Questions of Literature.”) The mission of this biography is to record the life stories of certain people and to observe the social characteristics of those people at that time, so as to explore The history of the rise and fall of the law, as a reference. Due to the fact that people pass on their books, the history of collecting and distributing books has also become the tradition of our country’s history. A large number of biographies, like the magnificent treasures, like treasures in our ancient culture, glow a unique Guanghua. Ancient biographies, first seen in “Zuo Zhuan”, “Mandarin”, “Warring States” and other pre-Qin history books. These books primarily record the great things that have taken place in various countries during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period