Life without books will make everything barren.
As long as I don't read a book for a day, I'm not in the mood to do anything else.
Chen Shou (233-297) was born in Han An, Brazil (now Nanchong, Sichuan). When I was a child, I was eager to learn and studied under Qiao Zhou, a scholar in the same county. He is in charge of general Wei, the secretariat of Dongguan, the history 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 entering Jin, he served as a writer, Changping magistrate, scholar and suggestion.
In 280, the gold was destroyed, ending the separatist situation. Chen Shou was forty-eight years old and began to write the history of the Three Kingdoms. After 10 years of hard work, Chen Shou completed the great historical work "The History of the Three Kingdoms". The History of the Three Kingdoms is a biographical history of the Three Kingdoms. There are 440 biographies of historical figures in the Three Kingdoms, 65 volumes and 367,000 words in the book, which 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.
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Evaluation of The History of Three Kingdoms
The History of the Three Kingdoms written by Chen Shou, like the first three histories, is also a private history book. After Fan Qi's death, Shang said in the above table: "Chen Shou wrote The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, in which there are many exhortations, which are conducive to weathering. Although the elegance is not the same, the quality is straight and I am willing to record it. " It can be seen that after the book "The History of the Three Kingdoms" was completed, it was well received and praised by people at that time. Chen Shou's narrative is short, the three books are rarely repeated, and the notes are informative. He is also very cautious in the selection of materials, which is valued by historians of past dynasties. Historians regard Historical Records, History of Han Dynasty, History of Later Han Dynasty and History of the Three Kingdoms as the first four histories, and regard them as biographical historical masterpieces.
Brilliant literary talent. Although the overall literary talent of The Three Kingdoms is slightly inferior, there are also many wonderful descriptions. For example, Battle of Red Cliffs and Chen Shou are loaded with relevant historical materials in Zhugeliang Biography, Zhuzhuan, Wuzhuan, Zhouyu Biography and Lusu Biography, respectively, and through their respective descriptions, especially the descriptions between Wu and Shu, monarch and ministers, Battle of Red Cliffs is colorful.