Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: a Book of Two Dynasties

On the autumn night of the tenth year of Taishi in the Western Jin Dynasty, Chen Shou coughed up blood and wrote "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" in a humble room in Luoyang. He guarded the cold porridge and the old wooden box left by his father, resisting temptations and pressure from orthodoxy. He used "Historical pens are like scales" to hide the truth about the establishment of the Three Kingdoms. On his deathbed, he hoped that someone would fill in the gaps. More than two hundred years later, Pei Songzhi followed the orders of Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty and buried himself in the library behind closed doors. He and his disciples visited the south of the Yangtze River in search of historical materials. They worked in the rain to rub monuments and in the snow to conduct textual research. Based on the principle of "preserving differences in history," he added nearly a million words in ten years to make the historical events written by Chen Shou vivid. The two never met, but they completed the inter-dynasty historical agreement by "keeping the truth" and "making up for the mistakes". "Three Kingdoms" and Pei Zhu are like twin stars, and they have become immortal history. Their persistence has also become a romantic footnote of the heroic era.