History of the Song Dynasty
The history of the Song Dynasty is one of the 24 histories, in the late Yuan Dynasty to the third year (1343) by the prime minister Totokh and Arutu successively presided over the revision, Temur Tazhi, He Weiyi, Zhang Qiyan, Ouyang Xuan and other seven people as the president. The book has 47 volumes, 162 volumes, 32 tables, and 255 biographies, a total of 496 volumes, which is the largest historical book in the 24 histories of China. The book was completed in October of the fifth year of the Zheng Dynasty (1345), and it took only two and a half years. The history of the Song Dynasty is voluminous, with a total of more than 2,000 biographies, which is twice as much as the biography of the old Tang Dynasty, and the weight of the chronicles is also unique among the 24 histories. The fourteen volumes of the Food and Goods Chronicles are equivalent to seven times the size of the Old Tang Dynasty Books and Food Chronicles. The history of the Song Dynasty followed the idea of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and the Qing Dynasty historian Qian Daxin said: "The history of the Song Dynasty is the most admired Taoism, and Zhu Yuanhui (Zhu Xi) is the sect. The revision of the history of the Song Dynasty follows the "theory of the life of Confucianism", "first reason and then rhetoric, advocating morality and deprecating utilitarianism." Calligraphy is based on it, and Yi Lun Lai is based on Kuangfu".
Because the history of the Song Dynasty was written in a hurry, it was difficult to inspect the school, and it came out of the hands of many people, therefore, it was inevitably absurd and contradictory in terms of text modification, historical material cutting, historical examination and revision, and the style of the whole book. In the past dynasties, there was often a discussion of rebuilding the history of the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Chen Huangzhong compiled 219 volumes of Song historical manuscripts, Lu Xinyuan compiled 40 volumes of Song Shiyi, and Li Xiao of North Korea also compiled a 148-volume Song history. Although these revisions improved some of the shortcomings of the Song history, none of them could replace the Song history.
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