历史文学所要阐述的问题有两个：一是有赖于历史学家们对历史记载的艺术性的表述，中国古代史籍中有许多篇章均体现了“文史皆长”的特色，亦如白寿彝先生归纳的五个方面：写人物、写战争、写场面、写语言、写世态。二是有赖于文学的补充，从文学中寻找和体会历史的生命力，其又可分为两种：一种是那些能比较具体地反映一些社会现象和历史内容的文学作品，另一种是那些能够对历史人物的感情和心理进行细腻的描述的文学作品 There are two problems to be elaborated in historical literature: First, it depends on the historians’ artistic expression of historical records. Many chapters in ancient Chinese historical books embody the characteristics of “both literature and history”, as is also summarized by Bai Shouyi The five aspects: write characters, write war, write scenes, write language, write the world. Second, it relies on the supplement of literature to find and understand the vitality of history from literature, which can be divided into two kinds: one is those literary works that can more concretely reflect some social phenomena and historical contents, the other is those Able to finely describe the feelings and psychology of historical figures