Sima as First Name

Sima Guang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Sima Guang: was a Chinese historian, scholar, and high chancellor of the Song Dynasty.

Sima Qian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Sima Qian: was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (???) of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian (??), an overview of the history of China covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Han Wudi (???). His definitive work laid the foundation for later Chinese historiography.

Sima Xiangru            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Sima Xiangru: was a Chinese writer. He was a minor official of the Western Han Dynasty but was better known for his poetic skills, jiu business, and controversial marriage to the widow Zhuo Wenjun after both eloped. One of his most famous works is the Chang Men Fu (literally "Ode of the Wide Gate"), written in the style fu, of rhymed prose under commission from a former Empress.

Sima Zhen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Sima Zhen: , was a Chinese historian born in what is now Jiaozuo, Henan during the Tang Dynasty.Sima Zhen was one of the most important commentators on the Shiji.[1] His commentary is known as the Shiji Suoyin (????), which means "Seeking the Obscure in the Grand Scribe's Records".[2]

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