Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 三国志注; traditional Chinese: 三國志注; pinyin: Sānguó zhì zhù) by Pei Songzhi (372–451) is an annotation completed in the 5th century of the 3rd century historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms, compiled by Chen Shou.
After the fall of the Eastern Jin, Pei Songzhi became the Gentleman of Texts under the Liu Song dynasty, and was given the assignment of editing the book, which was completed in 429.
Quoting classics was an inescapable reality of Chinese political and academic life as early as the Eastern Zhou period.
[9] Pei Songzhi often cites classics in order to contextualize quotations made by speakers in Chen Shou's original text,[10] and occasionally to explain the philosophy or background behind a person's actions.
[11] These works do not constitute historical sources for Pei Songzhi's purposes, but are included here for sake of completeness.