Faithful recording and subtle implicitness are a pair of important categories in ancient Chinese narrative theory.Emerging from historical narration,they were initiated by the pre-Qin historians and then inherited by numerous followers of later times,thus developed in literary narration.Faithful recording covers not only what the narrator intends to narrate,but also the narrator＇s ideas.Spring and Autumn Annals lays more stress on ideas.Sometimes,it even replaces facts with ideas and leads to biases.Subtle implicitness includes implicitness an...
