The policy of literary persecution tended to be lenient in Qian-Jia period in Qin dynasty.

清代乾嘉之际文禁政策逐渐趋向宽缓。

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Sima Qian drew a lot of idioms into the text from the folk spoken language and pre-Qin classics, so it is the special features of the language of Shiji.

司马迁兼收并蓄，博采众长，分别从民间口语和先秦典籍中汲取了大量的熟语入文，《史记》语言因此别具特色。

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