Please tell us who wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Romance of the Three Kingdoms .

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was written by Chen Shou. It is the history of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu from the first year of Emperor Wen of Wei (220) to the sixth year of Emperor Taikang of Jin Dynasty (280). There are 30 volumes of "Wei Zhi", 15 volumes of "Shu Zhi", and 20 volumes of "Wu Zhi".

There is no table or chronicle. Respect Wei orthodoxy Lie Benji called the emperor, Shu Wu as the lord. Wei and Wu Erzhi were compiled with reference to Yu Feng's "Wei Luo", Wang Shen's "Book of Wei", and Wei Yao's "Book of Wu".

There is no book in Shu, and it is mostly based on on-the-spot interviews and what you have seen and heard.

Value

It is a concise and well-cut book. However, the historical data is not abundant, and it is abbreviated (such as in Tuntian, Wang Bi, Ma Jun or omitted or not remembered), and sometimes there are curved pen articles to protect the text, which is not as straightforward as the "Historical Records". The three zhi were originally independent, and later generations were combined into one book.

Pei Songzhi of the Southern Dynasty made annotations for it, citing 159 kinds of books, adding far more historical materials than the original book, opening a generation of annotation style, which is very convenient for later learning.

This book is the historical basis of ** "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and can be compared and studied. He is the author of Zhao Yiqing's "Notes and Supplements" by Zhao Yiqing, Liang Zhangju's "Circumstantial Evidence", and Lu Bi's "Collection of Explanations"; The selection includes Miao Yue's "Selected Notes on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms". The popular version is the Baiguo book, the Wuyingdian book, and the punctuation book of the Zhonghua Book Company in 1959.

One of the 24 histories, the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", was written by Chen Shou of the Western Jin Dynasty.

The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms was written by Chen Shou, a historian of the Western Jin Dynasty, which recorded the history of the Three Kingdoms era in China, and was also one of the highest-rated "first four histories" in the 24 histories.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written by Chen Shou, which is more in line with historical reality than the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and is a relatively reliable historical material.

"Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", one of the 24 histories, is written by the Western Jin Dynasty historian Chen Shou, recording the history of the Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dynasties during the Three Kingdoms period of China, and is one of the highest-rated "first four histories" in the 24 histories.

At that time, Wei and Wu already had historical books, such as Wang Shen's "Book of Wei" written by the official, "Wei Luo" written by Yu Feng, and Wei Zhao's "Book of Wu" by the official Xiu, which should be the basic materials on which Chen Shou was based. Shu Han did not have the position of a historian, so he collected it by himself and only got fifteen volumes.

Chen Shou spent the first half of his life in Shu Han, and after entering the office, he was excluded by the eunuch Huang Hao and had no ambition. After the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, Chen Shou successively served as a writer, and in his later years, he was demoted many times, repeatedly criticized, and after ten years of hardship, he completed the masterpiece of historiography "Three Kingdoms".

Work evaluation:

Chen Shou's "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", like the first three histories, is also a private history. After his death, Shang Shulang Fan Yan said: "Chen Shou wrote "Three Kingdoms", many exhortations, friends gain and loss, beneficial weathering, although the text is not as similar, and the quality is straightforward, I am willing to record it."

It can be seen that after the book "Three Kingdoms" was completed, it was praised and praised by people at that time.

Chen Shou's narrative is brief, the three books are rarely repeated, and the account is detailed. It is also very careful in the selection of materials, which has been valued by historians throughout the ages. The historiographical circles regard the "Records of the Historians", "Book of the Han Dynasty", "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" and "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" as the first four histories, and regard them as masterpieces of historiography in the form of chronicles.