The concern about the relationships between history and story can be described as one of the efforts that illustrate the origin of Chinese novel. In this thesis, I will explain the reason and meaning of the tradition of historiography of Chinese fiction being treated as an important thing. The reason that history and fiction can be easily identified in China and Europe is mainly due to the formal features of both. In an early stage, fictions were not distinguished from history, but gradually diverged from history as time went by. This trend, however, evoked the returning to antiquity and imitation of the ancients in the Chinese literary tradition. The restoring antiquity that can be called the nostalgia to the originality always fretted the descendents to do their efforts of relieving their anxiety for precedence. Consequently, it might be impossible to discuss the relationship between history and fiction without both being separated.
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