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The Book of Sui (Chinese: 隋書; pinyin: Suí Shū) is the official history of the Sui dynasty, which ruled China in the years AD 581–618. It ranks among the official Twenty-Four Histories of imperial China. It was written by Yan Shigu, Kong Yingda, and Zhangsun Wuji, with Wei Zheng as the lead author.
Each fascicle is organised in the form of one or more biographies. The author Chen Shou was born in present-day Nanchong , Sichuan , then in the state of Shu Han . After the Conquest of Shu by Wei in 263, he became an official historian under the government of the Jin dynasty , and created a history of the Three Kingdoms period.
In 581 CE, the first year of the Kaihuang (开皇/開皇) Era, Emperor Wen of Sui embarked on the reform of the old legal system.He ordered Gao Jiong and other senior ministers including Yang Su, Zheng Yi, Su Wei and Pei Zheng (裴政) along with 14 other individuals to make extensive use of the meritorious laws of Cao Wei as well as the Jin, Qi and Liang Dynasties.
Reformed the ritual and calendar systems, as recording in the Book of Documents [56] Lin Xin (#) 廩辛: Zi Xian 子先: 1157–1149 (7–8 years) Son of Zu Jia Yin: Due to inconsistencies in the oracle bone inscriptions, it is possible he did not reign. [62] [63] Geng Ding 庚丁
It is not known when Xiao Cong was created crown prince, but it must be before 583, when Emperor Ming sent him, as Western Liang's crown prince, to congratulate his suzerain Emperor Wen of Sui on moving his capital from the old city Chang'an to the nearby new capital of Daxing (大興). In 585, Emperor Ming died, and Xiao Cong succeeded to the ...
The Twenty-Four Histories, also known as the Orthodox Histories (正史; Zhèngshǐ), are a collection of official histories detailing the dynasties of China, from the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in the 4th millennium BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century.
Candia-Bailey, 49, died by suicide in Illinois. Her mother, Veronica Candia, and husband Anthony Bailey, previously told NBC News that the Missouri university’s president John Moseley terminated ...
The Dongguan Hanji gradually faded in importance during the Tang dynasty, especially after Crown Prince Li Xian sponsored a commentary on the Book of the Later Han. [2] Once the Dongguan Hanji was replaced as a standard history, large parts of it began to be lost. The Book of Sui lists the text as having the original 143 volumes. By the Tang ...