From History to Historical Romance : "Xia" Imagery in the Late Era

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Sima Qian's (司馬遷) idealized xia (侠) image in the Shi Ji (史記) was the last conscious effort an official historian made to preserve and present the xia as a historical entity, but he also paved the way to turn the xia tradition into a literary convention. The romanticization of the xia tradition in the non-official historical works such the Wu Yue Chunqiu (呉越春秋) and Yue Jue Shu (越絶書) was the further development in this direction to literature. The transformation of the tradition was completed by the Wei-Jin era when xia novellas like the Yan Dan Zi (燕丹子) and the yuefu xia ballads (侠楽府) became the main carrier of the xia tradition.