When was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms written

"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.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was written by Chen Shou.

The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, one of the 24 histories, is written by the Western Jin Dynasty historian Chen Shou, which records the history of the Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dynasties during the Three Kingdoms period of China, and is one of the "first four histories" with the highest evaluation 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.

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".

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The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms were first circulated separately in the three books of "Book of Wei", "Book of Shu" and "Book of Wu". In order to avoid confusion between Cao Wei's Book of Wei and the Book of Wei of Northern Wei during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty combined the three books into one book in the sixth year of Xianping (1003), and finally completed the book. Therefore, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a product of cultural reintegration after the end of the period of the separation of the Three Kingdoms.

The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms is also the most special part of the 24 histories, because it is too brief, there is no "table" that records the lineage of princes and officials, nor does it record the "chronicles" of economy, geography, officials, rituals, and legal calendars, etc., which does not conform to the norms of the general official history established by the "Records of the Historical Brothers" and the "Book of Han Annihilation".

Chen Shou, a native of Anhan County, Brazil County, was a famous historian in the Shu Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period.