由《左传》看春秋史官的职能

《左传》这一部以鲁国历史为主的编年体的史书为我们全面地展现了春秋时代的社会面貌。而就《左传》的性质来说，它就是一本史书，具有档案的性质，就是一部后人研究先秦社会的史料，也就是春秋时期记录的档案。早期的史官与档案工作者的关系密不可分，很多史官往往兼职档案工作。那么早期史官除了记录资料之外还有哪些职能？试就《左传》所记载的史官们的职能略作探讨。

Roles of the Historiographer Defined by the Book Zuozhuan

The book Zuozhuan tells us the social status at that time during the spring and autumn period in ancient China. It is a book of history of Lu state , which can be taken as the archives of historical events . The book can be used by the next generation to study the social life of the Pre - Qin Dynasty. Historiographer and archivists are inseparable, many official historian at that times took on a part time job to do the archives work. The paper discussed the roles of the official historian except recording the historical events happened .