谈迁以大半生精力撰成《国榷》。在编年体的明史中,它篇帙最浩繁,内容最宏富。但谈迁家境贫寒,交游不广,政治上没有什么地位,晚年遭逢明清鼎革,入清后弃诸生、当遗民,拒不事清,所以他的这部巨著在明清之际没有引起人们的广泛注意。谈迁死后的第六年,发生了庄廷(钅龙)明史狱,其后文字狱接连兴起,文苑中屡有 Moved to most of life energetic written “State debate.” In the chronology of Ming Dynasty, it is the most voluminous articles, the contents of the most prosperous. However, he talked about moving his family and living in poverty and lacking in social connections. He lacks political status. In his later years, he met every Ming and Qing Dynasties and abandoned all his life when he entered the Qing dynasty. Aroused widespread attention. On the sixth year after his death, there was a Ming court prison in Zhuangting (Jionglong), followed by the rise of literary jails