The History of the Three Kingdoms is a biographical national history of Wei, Shu and Wu. Among them, Shu Wei has 30 volumes, Shu Shu 15 volumes, Wu Shu has 20 volumes and * * * has 65 volumes. It recorded the history of 60 years from the first year of Huang Chu, Wei Wendi (220 years) to the first year of Taikang, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty (280 years).
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Chen Shou (233-297), the word Chengzuo. A native of Han 'an County, Brazil (now Nanchong, Sichuan). A famous historian of Shu and Han dynasties in the Three Kingdoms and Western Jin Dynasty.
When Chen Shou was young, he was eager to learn. Learn from Qiao Zhou, a scholar in the same county. In office, he is the chief book guard, the secretariat of Dongguan, the official of Guan Ge, and the assistant minister of Huangmen.
At that time, eunuch Huang Hao was authoritarian, and his ministers followed suit. Chen Shou was repeatedly dismissed because he refused to give in to Huang Hao. After Shu fell to Jin, he worked as a writer, magistrate, scholar and prince. He was demoted and criticized many times in his later years. In the seventh year of Yuankang (297), he died at the age of 65.
In the first year of Taikang (280), after the Jin Dynasty ended the division of Wu, Chen Shou completed the biographical historical masterpiece "The History of the Three Kingdoms" after ten years of hard work. This book completely describes the historical panorama of China from division to unification in the last hundred years from the end of Han Dynasty to the beginning of Jin Dynasty, and is called "the first four histories" together with Historical Records, Hanshu and Houhanshu.