The Book of Jin is one of the twenty-four histories of China, co-authored by, and others, with a total of 2 1 authors. In the history recorded in the Book of Jin, from the early years of Sima Yi in the Three Kingdoms Period to the second year of Yuan Xi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (420), Emperor Wu of Song abolished Jin and became the A Jin Dynasty.

At the same time, the book describes the situation of sixteen regimes in the form of "ambition". The original narrative and catalogue contain one volume each, including ten volumes of Emperor Ji, twenty volumes of local chronicles, seventy volumes of biographies, thirty volumes of memoirs and 132 volumes of memoirs. Later, narrative examples and catalogues were lost, and now there are 130 volumes.

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The Book of Jin covers the history of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and describes the rise and fall of the separatist regime in the sixteen countries in the form of "ambition".

Before the Tang Dynasty, none of the historical materials about the Jin Dynasty were satisfactory. When Emperor Taizong revised Jin Shuzhao, he criticized all the historical works one by one.

Writing a systematic, complete and interesting history of Jin Dynasty is a great wish of Emperor Taizong. In the twenty years of Zhenguan, Fang, Chu Suiliang and Xu Wei were ordered to organize the compilation of the Book of Jin.

It took only two or three years for everyone to write the book of Jin.

There are two main reasons for the short writing time. First, the Book of Jin is backed by the government, and its manpower, material resources, financial resources and books and archives are guaranteed, which is incomparable to private history compilation. Second, there are many works on the history of Jin for reference. Because there is a blueprint as the basis, writing a book is naturally easier.

The Book of Jin pays little attention to the choice of historical materials, preferring to use anecdotes in novel notes, and some absurd remarks in Search and You are also included, which is not conducive to its historical value.

In addition, there are inconsistencies and omissions in the book. Most of the authors of the Book of Jin are good at poetry and prose, and in the process of writing history, they often unilaterally pursue gorgeous rhetoric. Therefore, later generations criticized it as "striving for beauty and not seeking truth." This is also one of the shortcomings of the Book of Jin.

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