《涅槃书》中提到了一个独立于皇权之外的修史机构——太史阁,实际上,它是以我国古代绵延千年的史官制度为蓝本演绎而成的。早在甲骨文中,就有了“史”之一字,钟鼎文中更是明确记录了“作册内史”的官职。到了周朝,史官的重要性更加凸显,而史官制度也渐渐发展为家族世袭。令人玩味的是,中国古代有无数暴虐的皇帝或者权臣,他们可以不信神佛,不惮民意,却偏偏对死后的名声颇为在意,无不想把自己塑造成与尧舜周公比肩的圣主良臣。而从春秋时期到唐朝中叶,由于 Nirvana referred to a Taishige palaces that were independent of the imperial power. Actually, it was based on the ancient system of the historian of the thousand years of history in our country. As early as in Oracle, there is a “history” of the word, Zhong Dingwen is clearly recorded “history of the book” official position. To the Zhou Dynasty, the importance of the historian even more prominent, and the official system has gradually developed into a family hereditary. What is interesting is that in ancient China countless tyrannical emperors or ministers, they can not believe in God, not afraid of public opinion, but happens to be quite concerned about the reputation of death, all want to shape themselves as the princes and lords shoulder to shoulder with Yao and Shun minister . From the Spring and Autumn Period to the mid-Tang Dynasty, due