第一章研究司马迁黄帝书写的学术渊源和时代动因。梳理司马迁黄帝书写的材料来源，归纳其取材原则以及处理材料的特点。从陈侯因敦等出土材料出发，探究《五帝本纪》所采用的《宰予问五帝德》和《帝系》的文献来历。《五帝德》出自宰予的发问，有迹象表明他曾在田陈时期的齐国活动，而《帝系》的记载与田齐的文献有诸多相近之处。我们推想田氏从舜的后裔陈国来到齐国，可能带来了一些黄帝故事资源，并在战国时期重新整理，《五帝德》可能与田陈有联系。结合《封禅书》，探讨汉代崇拜黄帝的时代风气、民间传说与追求长生的统治阶层对司马迁黄帝书写的影响。

第二章通过对《逸周书》等传世文献与清华简《五纪》、王家台秦简《归藏》、帛书《黄帝四经》、银雀山汉简《孙子兵法》等出土文献中的黄帝形象和黄帝战争传说引入对司马迁政治理想的探讨。区别先秦至汉初文献对黄帝形象的演绎方式，揭示黄帝形象的变化情况。探究黄帝战炎帝、黄帝战蚩尤、涿鹿之战、阪泉之战等相关黄帝战争传说如何生成并最终综合在《五帝本纪》中。司马迁笔下的黄帝形象反映出司马迁追求大一统基础上的持久和平的思想倾向和历史态度。

第三章通过对“本纪”中古代帝王世系的探究揭示司马迁黄帝书写的文化寄寓，总结司马迁黄帝书写的意义。联系《国语》、《山海经》等传世文献与上博简《容成氏》、《子羔》对古帝王世系的记载，探究司马迁如何厘定古帝王谱系，弥合矛盾，将三代、诸夏之外人群都纳入黄帝后裔的范围，使黄帝成为不同族群的共同祖先。通过梳理帛书《黄帝四经》等对“黄帝四面”及黄帝文化创造传说的记载，探究司马迁建构文化记忆的方式及其中所蕴含的思想观念。通过黄帝书写，《史记》确立了黄帝的族群共祖与人文始祖地位，为中华文明的起源留下了一个鲜明的精神印记。

The first chapter focuses on the academic origin and time motive of Sima Qian's writing. This paper sorts out the material sources of the Yellow Emperor's writings by Sima Qian and summarizes the principles of materials and the characteristics of materials. Starting from the unearthed materials such as Chen Houyin Dun, this paper explores the document origin of Zaiyu inquiring the Virtues of the Five Emperors and the System of Emperors adopted in the Five Emperors' Original Records. The Five Emperors' Virtues came from Zai Yu's questions. There are signs that he had been active in the State of Qi during the period of Tian Chen, and the records of the Emperors' System have many similarities with the documents of Tian Qi. We assume that Tian's arrival from Chen, a descendant of Shun, may have brought with him some resources of stories about the Yellow Emperor and reorganized them during the Warring States Period. The Five Emperors' Virtues may have been related to Tian Chen. Combined with the Book of Zen Sealing, this paper probes into the influence of the culture, folklore and the ruling class of the Han Dynasty that worshipped the Yellow Emperor and pursued longevity on the writing of the Yellow Emperor by Sima Qian.

The second chapter introduces the discussion of Sima Qian's political ideal and historical attitude through the handed down documents such as Yi Zhou Shu and the unearthed documents such as the Five Ji of Qing Dynasty, Wangjiatai Qin Jian's Collection, Silk Silk's Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor and the legend of the Yellow Emperor's war in the unearthed documents such as Yin Quai Shan Han Jian's Sun Tzu's Art of War. It distinguishes the deductive ways of the Yellow Emperor's image in the literature from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the early Han Dynasty and reveals the changes of the Yellow Emperor's image. This paper explores how the legends of the wars of the Yellow Emperor, such as Zhanchi Emperor, Zhuolu War, Zhuolu War and Zhanquan War, were generated and finally integrated into the Five Emperors' Original Ji. The image of Yellow Emperor in Sima Qian's works reflects his ideological tendency and historical attitude of pursuing lasting peace on the basis of unity.

The third chapter reveals the cultural connotation of Sima Qian's Yellow Emperor's writing and summarizes the significance of Sima Qian's Yellow Emperor's writing through the exploration of the ancient imperial lineage in the "Benji". In connection with the ancient imperial lineage recorded in Guoyu, The Classic of Mountains and Seas and Rongcheng and Zihu, this paper explores how Sima Qian determined the pedigree of the ancient emperors, bridging the contradictions, including the descendants of the Yellow Emperor in three generations and other people outside the Xia dynasty, making the Yellow Emperor the common ancestor of different ethnic groups. This paper explores Sima Qian's way of constructing cultural memory and the ideas contained in it by combing the records of "Four Classics of the Yellow Emperor" and the legend of the Yellow Emperor's cultural creation in Silk manuscripts. Through his writings, Records of the Grand Historian established Huang Di as the ancestor of humanity and left a distinct spiritual mark for the origin of Chinese civilization.