Book of the Week
Tang Linghu Dedi Fengyi editor-in-chief, fifty volumes, one of the twenty-four histories. Record the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Northern Zhou Dynasty. The original book has been incomplete after the Northern Song Dynasty, and this book is mostly taken from the Northern History to make up for the death. 〈Source: Chinese Dictionary〉
Linghu Dedi (AD 583~666), a native of Huayuan, Yizhou (now Yaoxian, Shaanxi). Born in the third year of Emperor Wen of Sui, he is the son of Shaoqing Xi of Sui Honglu. Dedi Bo through literature and history, insightful, well-known in his early years, the three dynasties of Tang Gaozu, Taizong, and Gaozong, at the beginning of the living house, and then moved to the Ministry of Rites and the history of the country, and moved to Taichangqing, Guozi Sacrificial Wine, Chongxian Hall Bachelor. All the revisions of the state are all involved. In the fourth year of Wude (621), Dedi suggested that the history of the five dynasties of Liang, Chen, Qi, Zhou, and Sui should be repaired to correct the history. Gao Zuran, so the edict ordered Xiao Yu and others to rectify the writing, but they couldn't do it for many years. In the third year of Zhenguan (629), Taizong set up a history museum to revise it, and ordered Dedi to major in Zhou Shu. Zhenguan ten years, the book of Zhou and the other four histories were completed at the same time, which was the beginning of the history of the museum in our country, and the subsequent generations followed each other as an example, and its source was from the German hair. In the fifth year of Wude, De Di and Chen Shuda were edicted to write art and literature. In addition to the funeral, the scriptures were scattered, and the De Di played to please add money and silk, buy the world's testament, and place the officials to make up the record, and the illustrated dictionary was prepared in a few years. In the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, the edict was rewritten to the Jin book, and Dedi participated in the pre-revision, at that time there were 18 fellow practitioners, and pushed Dedi as the head, and its style depends on the most. In the first year of Yonghui (650), Dedi was edicted to write laws and regulations, and supervised the revision of the history of the country and the history of the five dynasties. The so-called national history, that is, the eighty volumes of the history of the Wude and Zhenguan dynasties, is the precedent of the history of the Qi and Tang dynasties. The so-called five dynasties of the historical chronicles, that is, the Liang, Chen, Qi, Zhou, Sui Shu Ten Zhi, after each history of the single line, the ten Zhi then called Sui Zhi and merged into the Sui Shu. Later, De Di also cultivated the record of Zhenguan thirteen years later and the record of Gaozong's later repair. Throughout his life, he devoted himself to academics, and he did not slack off. He died in the first year of Qianfeng at the age of eighty-four. (Ren Yucai)〈 Source: Chinese Encyclopedia〉