Sixty-five volumes of the reflection, thirty volumes of Shu Wei, fifteen volumes of Shu Shu and twenty volumes of Wu Shu. The History of the Three Kingdoms is called "Ambition without Ambition", and the whole book has only biographies and biographies. The History of the Three Kingdoms wrote the Ji of Emperor Wu, the Ji of Emperor Wen and the Ji of Ming Di for Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Cao respectively. Shu Shu records Liu Bei as the first biography and Liu Chan as the last biography; Sun Quan called tachileik and recorded Sun Liang, Sun Xiu and Sun Hao as three heirs.
There are no biographies in Shu. Chen Shou was a courtier of the Jin Dynasty, who inherited Wei and won the world, so the History of the Three Kingdoms respected Wei as orthodox. In terms of length, Shu Wei accounts for about half of the book, Wu Shu accounts for about one third and Shu Shu accounts for about one sixth, which may be related to the amount of historical materials.
Background of the three countries:
The History of the Three Kingdoms written by Chen Shou, a historian in the Western Jin Dynasty, records the dynastic history of China in the Three Kingdoms period, and is also one of the "first four histories" with the highest evaluation among the twenty-four histories. Before that, there was a draft of the Three Kingdoms. At that time, Wei and Wu both had histories, such as Yu Qian's Wei Lue and Zhao Wei's. These three books are regarded as the basic materials of Chen Shouzhi, and Shu has no history, so they are collected by themselves, and only get 15 volumes.
However, due to the work of a historian, this book was finally written. Therefore, the history of the Three Kingdoms is the product of cultural reintegration after the split of the Three Kingdoms. The History of the Three Kingdoms was first published as Wei Zhi, Shu Zhi and Wu Zhi respectively. It was not until the sixth year of Xianping in the Northern Song Dynasty (1003) that the three books were merged into one volume.
The History of the Three Kingdoms is also the most special one in the twenty-four histories. Because it is too simple, it does not record the lineage of princes and princes, nor does it record the "records" of economy, geography, official position, rites and music, legal calendar, etc., which does not conform to the norms of general official history established in Historical Records and Hanshu.