As a historical narrative text, Records of the Historian is mainly composed of two narrative strata.

作为历史叙述文本，《史记》主要由两个叙述层次构成。

Still later the historian Kay mentions Hindu records from the 4th and 5th Centuries C. E. of a new Sun God cult coming in from the West.

之后历史学家凯提到印度文献记载有4到5世纪的源于西方的新的太阳神崇拜。

Records of the Historian held that it happened in Confucius' old age and was connected with the writing of the chronicle book, Spring and Autumn.

《史记•十二诸侯年表》认为孔子观周与作《春秋》有关，时间应是孔子晚年。此外还有《严氏春秋》记孔子与左丘明“观周”的说法。