Kim History
"History of the Jin", a biography of the Jin Dynasty written by the Yuan Dynasty and others, with a total of 135 volumes. Including 19 volumes of the Benji, 39 volumes of the Chronicles, 4 volumes of the Table, and 71 volumes of the Biography, it describes the rise of the Jurchen people to the establishment and fall of the Jin Dynasty. Attached is 1 volume of "Jin Chinese Interpretation". Shi Guoqi of the Qing Dynasty had 10 volumes of "Jin Shi Translation School".
The compilation of the "Golden History" began during the reign of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty. In the second year of Zhongtong (1261), it was proposed to revise the history of Liao and Jin. After the destruction of the Song Dynasty, it was discussed to repair the three histories of Liao, Jin and Song. However, in the end, the book could not be written because the style could not be determined. In March of the third year of Emperor Yuan Shun (1343), the edict repaired the three histories of Liao, Jin and Song, and took the right prime minister of Zhongshu as the adjudicator of the capital, and Ouyang Xuan, a bachelor of Hanlin, and other six people as the adjudicator and presided over the revision. In October of the fifth year, the three histories of Liao, Jin, and Song were completed. The materials on which Yuan Renxiu's "History of the Jin" is based mainly include the records of the Jin Dynasty, including the three volumes of the "Records of the Ten Emperors under the First Ancestor" written by Wan Yan Xuan, as well as the "Records of Taizu", "The Records of Taizong", "The Records of Xizong", "The Records of Hailing", "The Records of Sejong", "The Records of Zhangzong", "The Records of Xuanzong" and so on. There is no record of Wei Shao, and the existing materials are collected by Wang He from many sources. The deeds of the end of the Jin Dynasty are mostly based on Yuan Haowen's "Wang Chen's Miscellaneous Compilation" and Liu Qi's "Gui Qianzhi", Wang He's "Runan Legacy", Yang Huan's "Tianxing Jinjian" and so on. Because the "Golden History" is based on the relatively complete "Actual Record", supplemented by Yuan Haowen, Wang Que and so on, and revised several times since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, it has actually been in business for a long time, and the second history of Song and Liao was written in a hurry, so it is known as the best among the three histories. The same event in the biographies is described in detail in the biographies of the leading figures, and in the other biographies, it is discussed in the sideways to avoid retelling. However, there are also some contradictions and overlaps in the "Golden History", historical facts are wrong and strategic, the years are reversed and out of order, and the names of people and places are confused and the accounts of wars are victorious and defeated. Shi Guoqi of the Qing Dynasty wrote ten volumes of "Detailed Proofreading of the History of Jin", and collated and examined more than 4,000 articles of the "History of Jin".
The "History of Jin" was engraved in the period from Yuan to Zheng. In the Ming Dynasty, there were two prison books in the north and south, and the Qing Dynasty had Wuying Palace. During the Qianlong period, the four library ministers proofread Wu Yingdianjie and arbitrarily changed the translation of place names and personal names, causing confusion. In 1935, the Commercial Press published a hundred copies of the Golden History, which was photocopied in 135 volumes from the Yuan Dynasty to the main edition (80 volumes were first engraved and 55 volumes were later reprints). In 1975, Chung Hwa Book Company published the punctuation and proofreading version of the "Golden History", which was based on the Baiqu book, and referred to the prison book and the palace book, and also referred to the relevant historical materials for proofreading, drawing on the results of the predecessors' examination and revision, which is the current better version.
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