List of cited texts in Records of the Three Kingdoms

The following is a list of texts used by Pei Songzhi in Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sānguó zhì 三國志).

The major genres of writing common at this time are rendered as follows:


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 * bei 碑 stele incription (funerary or commemorative)
 * biezhuan 別傳 unofficial/secundairy biography
 * fu 賦 rhapsody
 * ji 紀 annal
 * ji 記 record
 * ji 集 collection or collected works
 * lei 誄 eulogy
 * ling biao 靈表 memorial statement
 * lun 論 discussion or essay
 * ming 銘 inscription
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 * mu biao 墓表 tomb inscription
 * mu zhi 墓志 (墓誌) tomb marker
 * shi 詩 poem
 * song 頌 hymn
 * ya 雅 ode
 * zan 讚 eulogy
 * zhangju 章句 commentary or detailed commentary
 * zhen 箴 exhortation
 * zhi 志 record
 * zhuan 傳 biography
 * zhuan 傳 biography

List of cited texts
The main list of texts cited by Pei Songzhi in his annotations to Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms.

For more references and a more detailed account on how the list was compiled, see:
 * List of cited texts in the Book of Wei
 * List of cited texts in the Book of Shu
 * List of cited texts in the Book of Wu

List of classic texts
List of texts who do not deal with the period of the Three Kingdoms itself, but were cited by Pei Songzhi to explain a persons words or actions. Many of these works were created long before the Three Kingdoms period. Some were annotated during the Han or Three Kingdoms period (but do not subject the fall of Han or Three Kingdoms).

List of dubious texts found in Pei's annotations
The origin of these texts are disputable, as are either its contents, its names or its citations. Texts marked in have been found in other lists of cited works (such as Gao Min's Books used by Pei Songzhi on noting 'History of the Three Kingdoms') but are according to us an erroneous mention. In the notes section we explain why.

List of cited authors
List of authors, scholars and the like who have been cited by Pei Songzhi. These were cited by Pei Songzhi in Sanguo zhi without a name of a work being mentioned (in some cases they were referred to as 'commentary' 評).

Facts & Figures

 * Total amount of citings by Pei Songzhi: 2606
 * Total amount of unique works used by Pei Songzhi:
 * Most cited history work: Wèi shū (197x)
 * Most cited history work in a single chapter: Wèi shū (41x in the Book of Wei 1)
 * Most seen history work:
 * Most cited historian:
 * Chapter with the most citings:
 * Chapter with the most citings (hanzi):