Jiu Guo Zhi


Jiu Guo Zhi, or Records of the Nine Kingdoms, is a Chinese history book primarily composed by Lu Zhen of the Northern Song dynasty. The book covers nine of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of Chinese history: Yang Wu, Southern Tang, Wuyue, Former Shu, Later Shu, Northern Han, Southern Han, Min, and Ma Chu. Lu Zhen died before completing the book, and Zhang Tangying added some materials. Later, Lu Zhen's son, Lu Lun, added two chapters on Jingnan.
The book originally contained 51 chapters, but chapters on the royal annuals have disappeared. In the 18th century, historian Shao Jinhan extracted surviving chapters from the Yongle Encyclopedia, which were recompiled by Zhou Mengtang into a 12-chapter book.