First, it issues an assurance: Qian assures the Ming loyalists that posterity will remember them, through their writings, just as the Ming people remember the Song loyalists.

• 而史学传统的褒贬观及诗学传统的美刺观在中国文化中地位崇高，亦为此时此地的书写行动注入了超越实际政权的强韧力量。