"Wu Yue Spring and Autumn Period", written by Zhao Ye of the Eastern Han Dynasty, takes the history of Wu and Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period as the main line, showing that magnificent history.
The first five articles focus on the country of Wu, starting from Uncle Wu and ending with his husband; The last five chapters turn to the Yue Kingdom, starting from nothing, and depicting all the way to the glory of Goujian's hegemony and his descendants.
The book not only pays attention to the historical facts of Wu Yue's struggle for hegemony, but also shows the style of later romances in the portrayal of characters and storylines, which has had a profound impact on later literature.
For example, the Tang Dynasty's "Wu Zixu Changed Texts", the Song and Yuan Dynasty's "Wu Yue Chunqiu Lianxiang Commentary", and many plays after the Ming and Qing dynasties, all of which are based on this book and inherit the charm of that period of history.
The "Yue Jue Shu", which is mostly considered to be the work of Yuan Kang and Wu Ping, is a miscellaneous history that records the local history of ancient Wu and Yue, also known as "Yue Jue Ji", with a total of 15 volumes.
This book is a mixture of historical facts of Wu and Yue during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, from Xia Yu to the Han Dynasty, and to the princes and countries, which can be described as a historical encyclopedia.
Wang Chong, a famous scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, praised it as one of the five famous works at that time. As for the explanation of the title of the book, there was an old saying of "extinction", but today's research shows that it is actually the transliteration of the ancient Chinese "record", and it is the proper name of the historical records of the Yue Kingdom.
The common feature of these two works is that they not only record basic historical facts, but also fictional absurd and bizarre stories, incorporating many myths and folklore, which are quite similar to the legends of later generations**.
The difference between them is that the chapters of the "Yue Jue Shu" are relatively independent, in addition to recording the story of Wu Yue's struggle for hegemony, it also covers special articles such as geography and qi.
From a literary point of view, it is more literary, and the perfect integration of history and **, so that readers can feel the charm of literature while tasting history.