Compared with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is more authentic, because the former is a formal history, and the latter is a novel, which is also the biggest difference between the two. The Three Kingdoms Annals, one of the twenty-four histories, was written by Chen Shou, a historian of the Western Jin Dynasty. It records the history of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period of China. It is one of the first four histories with the highest evaluation among the twenty-four histories. At that time, there were already historical books in Wei and Wu, such as Wang Shen's "Wei Shu" (official edition), Yu Quan's "Wei Lue" (private edition), and Wei Zhao's "Wu Shu" (official edition). These three books should be
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