The author of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty is Fan Ye.
Fan Ye (398-445), courtesy name Weizong, was a native of Shunyang County, Shunyang County (now Liguanqiao Town, Xichuan County, Henan Province). He was a famous historian, writer and official in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Fan Ye was talented throughout his life and made outstanding achievements in history. The book "Book of the Later Han Dynasty" draws from many books, has a rigorous structure and dense diction. It is also called the "First Four Histories" together with "Historical Records", "Han Shu" and "Three Kingdoms".
Artistic Characteristics of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty inherited the biographical system of the previous generation, but also made some innovations in its writing. In terms of character biographies, in addition to inheriting the biographies such as "Xunli", "Kuli" and "Rulin" in "Hanshu", he also created There are 7 new kinds of biographies, including "Dang Chao", "Eunuch", "Wen Yuan", "Ding Xing", "Yi Min", "Alchemy" and "Lienv", which were not found in the history books of the previous dynasties.
The last six types of biographies were inherited by most chronicle-style historical books in later generations. "The biographies of "Wenyuan" and "Lienv" were added to the history books and cannot be published or eliminated" (Shao Jinhan's "Jiangnan Shulu"), This makes the style that is related to the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty gain eternal historical value that transcends time series.