Sui Shu
The History of the Sui Dynasty ( Chinese 隋 書 / 隋 书 , Pinyin Suīshū ) is the official history of the Chinese Sui Dynasty and is the 13th of the Twenty-Four Dynasty Tales of Imperial China. It comprises 85 scrolls / volumes ( 捲 , juǎn ) and covers the period from 581 to 617. It was written by a group of historians under the direction of Wei Zheng (580–643) and completed in 636.
Her literature catalog ( Suishu jingjizhi隋 書 經 籍 志) is particularly valuable , and like that of Hanshu, it provides valuable bibliographical information about lost works from the past. The holdings of the palace library of the Sui (589–618) were recorded in rolls / volumes serial nos. 32–35 (over 2,800 works, some of them multi-volume, on 31,694 rolls (silk sheets)).
Contents of the Sui Shu
The first five volumes ( Annalen , 紀 / 纪, jì) contain the chronicles of the emperors Sui Wendi , Sui Yangdi and Sui Gongdi . The following 30 volumes six to 35 ( tracts , 誌 / 志, zhì) describe customs and rituals, music, legal history, celestial studies, the five-element theory , criminal law, civil servants, geography and the thirteen classics . The biographies of empresses, concubines, princes and other important people are collected in 50 additional volumes ( biographies , 列傳 / 列传, lièzhuàn).
Chinese text
魏徵, 隋 書 (85 卷), 北京 (中華書局), 1973 (Wei Zheng, Suishu (85 juan), Beijing (Zhonghua shuju), 1973), 6 vols., 1904 pp. Reprinted 1999, ISBN 978-7-101-02128-8 . The Zhonghua edition of the 24 Dynasty Tales is the current standard edition.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger China-Notizen, NF 24, February 5, 2007. ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1 page)
