Chen Shou.

Everything can be accomplished with an open mind, but nine things will come to nothing if you are complacent. Modesty: not self-righteous, able to accept other people's opinions, complacency: satisfied with one's own achievements. The meaning of this sentence is: Humility can help you accomplish many things successfully; but if you are self-righteous and complacent, nine out of ten things may not be accomplished, which means that the possibility of accomplishing things is very low. Smaller.

Chen Shou (233-297), courtesy name Chengzuo. A native of Anhan County, Brazil County (now Nanchong, Sichuan). He was a famous historian during the Shu Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period. He was eager to learn when he was young, and was taught by Qiao Zhou, a scholar from the same county. During the Shu Han Dynasty, he served as the chief secretary of General Wei, the secretary of Dongguan, the official history of Guange, and the minister of Sanqi Huangmen. At that time, the eunuch Huang Hao had exclusive power, and all the ministers were willing to obey. Chen Shou was dismissed many times because he refused to submit to Huang Hao. After Shu was surrendered to Jin, he successively held the posts of Shu Lang, Grand Administrator of Changguang, Zhi Shu and Censor, and Prince Concubine. In his later years, he was demoted many times and criticized many times. Yuankang died of illness in the seventh year of his reign (297) at the age of sixty-five.

In the first year of Taikang (280), after Jin destroyed Wu and ended the split, Chen Shou spent 10 years of hard work completing the biographical historical masterpiece "Three Kingdoms", with a total of 65 volumes and 367,000 words. It completely records the historical picture of China's transition from division to reunification in the last hundred years from the end of the Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Jin Dynasty. It is also known as the "First Four Histories" together with "Historical Records", "Han Shu" and "Hou Han Shu".