Traditional Chinese 宋書 Hanyu Pinyin Preceded by Book of the Later Han | Simplified Chinese 宋书 Hokkien POJ Sòng-su Date written 488 AD Followed by Book of Qi | |
Similar Book of the Later Han, Book of Han, Records of the Three Kingdoms, Records of the Grand Historian, Zizhi Tongjian | ||
The Book of Song (Sòng Shū) is a historical text of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties of China. It covers history from 420 to 479, and is one of the Twenty-Four Histories, a traditional collection of historical records. It was written in 492–493 by Shen Yue from the Southern Qi dynasty (479–502).
The work contained 100 volumes at the time that it was written, but some volumes were already missing by the time of the Song Dynasty. Later editors reconstructed those volumes by taking material from the History of the Southern Dynasties, plus a few works such as the Historiette of Gao by Gao Jun, though many of those volumes were no longer in their original condition.
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