Later Han Ji "reading Notes

Epoch of Eastern Han edited by Yuan Hong of the Jin Dynasty is an excellent annalistic style dynastic history, which includes thirty volumes, and consists of about two hundred and ten thousand Chinese words. It gives an account of the two hundreds rise and fall history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, from the peasant revolt of the last years of the Wang Mang, to Cao Pi substituted emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor.Epoch of Eastern Han has witnessed several ups and downs, but there is no good edition of it. In recent year, two editions of the Epoch of Eastern Han appeared one after another, one is edition of the checked edition of the Epoch of Eastern Han, which checked and annotated by Zhou Tianyou, published by Tianjin ancient book press in 1987, another is Epoch of Eastern Han in the Epoch of Two Han, which checked and annotated by Zhang Lie, published by Zhonghua press in 2002. The former selected the Edition of Lesantang as master copy, and the later selected the Edition of Huang Jishui as master copy. Referring to the researchers of the Ming Dynasty's and Qing Dynasty's scholar, the two works are very convenient for us. There are some shortage of punctuations and collations in these two works. Therefore, referred to the edition of the four series, Epoch of Eastern Han recorded in the Complete Library in the Four Branches of literature, History of Eastern Han and other relevant documents and papers handed down, the author tide up and correct the errors and problems of punctuation such as misuse and missed in these papers.