Book of Northern Qi
Written by Tang Li Baiyao, 50 volumes, it is a biographical history book that records the history of the Northern Qi Dynasty. There are eight in this book, forty-two biography, no ambition, and then supplemented, one of the twenty-four histories. 〈Source: Chinese Dictionary〉
Li Baiyao (565 ~ 648), a native of Anping, Dingzhou, Tang Dynasty (now Hebei), was a historian of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Delin, the father of Baiyao, was a historian of the Northern Qi Dynasty and participated in the compilation of the "National History"; Later, he was also a famous minister of the Sui Dynasty, and he continued to write a history. When Emperor Wen of Sui was the prince of Baiyaoshi, he was a scholar of the East Palace. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was the Sima of Guizhou and moved to Anjuncheng. After the Tang Dynasty, worship the scholars, the servants of the Ministry of Rites, and the regular attendants of the scattered horses. He was upright and upright, and he bluntly admonished Tang Taizong to cancel the princes, which was adopted by Taizong.
The Book of Northern Qi was written by the Tang Dynasty historian Li Baiyao. The history of the dynasties in the style of Ji Biography, a total of 50 volumes, 8 volumes, and 42 volumes of biography, records about ten years before the split of the Northern Wei Dynasty, followed by the split of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the establishment of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, the replacement of the Eastern Wei Dynasty by the Northern Qi Dynasty, and the death of the Northern Qi Dynasty, about 50 years before and after the historical facts, and the history of the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577) is mainly recorded. At the same time, there were also Liangshu, Chenshu, Zhoushu, and Sui Shu. These five books were called "History of the Five Dynasties" at the time.
Tang Taizong attaches great importance to the talent and learning of 100 medicines, and 100 medicines have been edicted twice in the first year and three years of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan to continue to complete the manuscript of his father's Qi book, and refer to the chronicle of Qi Zhi written by Wang Shao, a historian of the Sui Dynasty. The Book of Qi was written in Zhenguan for ten years, and went through three dynasties, Northern Qi, Sui, and Tang, a total of more than 60 years.
Later, the Northern Qi Book suffered a serious dispersion. By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, only one volume of the fifty-volume Northern Qi Book remained, and the sixteen-volume biography was the original text of Li Baiyao; The rest of the volumes were copied and supplemented by later generations based on the Northern History written by the Tang Dynasty historian Li Yanshou. Because the Northern History was not dispersed at that time, the descendants supplemented the Northern Qi Book according to the Northern History, which is not all the original text of the hundred medicines in the text, but it is not true in the content. (Because the part of the history of the Northern Qi Dynasty in the Northern History is mostly taken from the Northern Qi book). The Northern Qi Book was originally known as the Book of Qi, and in the Song Dynasty, in order to distinguish Xiao Zixian, the Book of Southern Qi was changed to the Book of Northern Qi.
〈The above is excerpted fromWikipedia〉