Songshu

The Book of Song (Chinese: 宋書; pinyin: Sòng Shū), is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history 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 d...