The Book of the Later Han Dynasty is a biographical history book that records the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The book is divided into ten chapters, eighty biographies and eight records (continued by Sima Biao), which records the history from Wang Mang to Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty 195.
Biography and Biography were written by Ye Fan in Liu and Song Dynasties. This book synthesizes seven historical materials of the later Han Dynasty circulated at that time, and quotes Justin's Records of the Later Han Dynasty, which is concise, comprehensive and vivid, so it replaces the previous later Han Dynasty.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was co-published with Sima Biao's Eight Records and Thirty Volumes of Continued Han Dynasty in Jin Dynasty, and now it is the Book of Later Han Dynasty.
Ye Fan (AD 398-445) was born in Song Yang Shun (now Xichuan East, Henan Province) in the Southern Dynasties. From officials to general Zuo Wei and prince James.
In the 9th year of Yuanjia, Song Wendi (432), Ye Fan began to write the Book of the Later Han Dynasty because he failed to stay in Xuancheng as a satrap. In the 22nd year of Yuanjia (445), he was killed for treason. He wrote ten biographies and eighty biographies. The ten goals of the original plan have not been completed.
This edition of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty has eight records and thirty volumes, which are taken from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty by Liang Sima Biao of the Southern Dynasties.
Ye Fan was born into a famous aristocratic family. Gaozu Wei, who was the secretariat of Yongzhou in the Western Jin Dynasty, was General Zuo Jia. Great-great-grandfather Wang Fan joined the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was promoted to general Jin and secretariat of Xu Yanzhou, and was promoted to marquis of Xing Wu county. Grandfather Fan Ning successively became a magistrate in Linhuai and Zhang Yu.