History of the New Five Dynasties

History of the New Five Dynasties

Revised by Song Ouyang, 74 volumes. It is divided into 12 volumes, 3 volumes, 11 volumes of family annals, 45 volumes of biographies, and 3 volumes of appendices. This book was written privately by Ouyang Xiu, and when he reached the time of the Divine Sect, he begged for his book and published it. Roughly take the Spring and Autumn Righteous Law, implying the subtle purpose of praise and disapproval, so the righteous example is strict; Narrating the ancestral history, the article is concise. Parallel to the history of the old five dynasties written by Xue Juzheng of the Song Dynasty, it is one of the twenty-four histories.

Source of the above: Chinese Dictionary of the Ministry of Education