Yu Hua s novel has an intense tone of nihilism, showing the inner world while Zhang Yimou s movie adaptation possesses a strong tendency of humanitarianism, trying to reflect historical truth.

This article analyzed the reason and meaning of historical theme TV play and historical drama\'s development and situation,and described the general picture of historical drama through the discussion of relationship between historical truth and art reality in historical drama.

The dialectical relationship between historical truth and artistic truth;writing status quo about history in literati and films;ideological and artistic value of The First Fire Hero.

On Scott s Historical Reality View from the Description of the Unimportant Persons in"Ivanhoe";

The images of China in Amy Tan s fiction bear a great literary charm because they move between historical reality and literary imagination.

The principle of "historical reality" has undergone some remarkable changes in the recent years,as a result of which it is no longer the sole goal for a writer to bring back the historical reality in his historical fictional writing.

As the foundation of Marxist theory of "artistic reality" and "historical fact",through comparing literature with history,this text pointed out such phenomenon in the contemporary literary works and films and television programs as ignoring history,distorting history at will and violating the creation principle of historical literary,analysed the reasons and stated the solutions.

Philosophically speaking, the reproduction of "historical authenticity" is ideal but impractical.