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Ding Fu, Grand Historian of Eastern Wu, was commissioned with Xiang Jun to compile the Book of Wu in Sun Quan’s final years.

History in 2 vols. of the Records · Not in the Romance

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  • History · vol. 47Records of the Three Kingdoms

    …項竣、(吳孚)〔丁孚〕時已有注記,此云與張惠恕不能。後韋氏作史,蓋惠恕之黨,故不見書。」…
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    四年夏五月,丞相孫邵卒。〈吳錄曰:邵字長緒,北海人,長八尺。爲孔融功曹,融稱曰「廊廟才也」。從劉繇於江東。及權統事,數陳便宜,以爲應納貢聘,權即從之。拜廬江太守,遷車騎長史。黃武初爲丞相,威遠將軍,封陽羨侯。張温、暨艷奏其事,邵辭位請罪,權釋令復職,年六十三卒。志林曰:吳之創基,邵爲首相,史無其傳,竊常怪之。嘗問劉聲叔。聲叔,博物君子也,云:「推其名位,自應立傳。項竣、(吳孚)〔丁孚〕時已有注記,此云與張惠恕不能。後韋氏作史,蓋惠恕之黨,故不見書。」〉六月,以太常顧雍爲丞相。〈吳書曰:以尚書令陳化爲太常。化字元耀,汝南人,博覽眾書,氣幹剛毅,長七尺九寸,雅有威容。爲郎中令使魏,魏文帝因酒酣,嘲問曰:「吳、魏峙立,誰將平一海內者乎?」化對曰:「易稱帝出乎震,加聞先哲知命,舊説紫蓋黃旗,運在東南。」帝曰:「昔文王以西伯王天下,豈復在東乎?」化曰:「周之初基,太伯在東,是以文王能興於西。」帝笑,無以難,心奇其辭。使畢當還,禮送甚厚。權以化奉命光國,拜犍爲太守,置官屬。頃之,遷太常,兼尚書令。正色立朝,敕子弟廢田業,絶治産,仰官廩祿,不與百姓爭利。妻早亡,化以古事爲鑑,乃不復娶。權聞而貴之,以其年壯,敕宗正妻以宗室女,化固辭以疾,權不違其志。年出七十,乃上疏乞骸骨,遂爰居章安,卒於家。長子熾,字公熙,少有志操,能計算。衞將軍全琮表稱熾任大將軍,赴召,道卒。〉皖口言木連理。冬十二月,鄱陽賊彭綺自稱將軍,攻沒諸縣,眾數萬人。是歳地連震。〈吳錄曰;是冬魏文帝至廣陵,臨江觀兵,兵有十餘萬,旌旗彌數百里,有渡江之志。權嚴設固守。時大寒冰,舟不得入江。帝見波濤洶涌,嘆曰:「嗟乎!固天所以隔南北也!」遂歸。孫韶又遣將髙壽等率敢死之士五百人於徑路夜要之,帝大驚,壽等獲副車羽蓋以還。〉

  • History · vol. 53Records of the Three Kingdoms

    …大皇帝末年,命太史令丁孚、郎中項峻始撰《吳書》。孚、峻俱非史才,其所撰作,不足紀錄。…
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    臣聞五帝三王皆立史官,敘錄功美,垂之無窮。漢時司馬遷、班固,咸命世大才,所撰精妙,與六經俱傳。大吳受命,建國南土。大皇帝末年,命太史令丁孚、郎中項峻始撰《吳書》。孚、峻俱非史才,其所撰作,不足紀錄。至少帝時,更差韋曜、周昭、薛瑩、梁廣及臣五人,訪求往事,所共撰立,備有本末。昭、廣先亡,曜負恩蹈罪,瑩出為將,復以過徙,其書遂委滯,迄今末撰奏。臣愚淺才劣,適可為瑩等記注而已,若使撰合,必襲孚、峻之跡,懼墜大皇帝之元功,損當世之盛美。瑩涉學既博,文章尤妙,同寮之中,瑩為冠首。今者見吏,雖多經學,記述之才,如瑩者少,是以慺慺為國惜之。實欲使卒垂成之功,編於前史之末。奏上之後,退填溝壑,無所復恨。

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Ding Fu was an official in charge of the Grand Scribe’s Office of Eastern Wu and appears in volume 53 of the Records of the Three Kingdoms. He is not mentioned in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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In Sun Quan’s final years, Ding Fu and the Gentleman-in-Attendance Xiang Jun were ordered to begin compiling the Book of Wu. A memorialist said that neither man had the talent for historiography and that their work was inadequate for recording historical events (as recorded in the histories).

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  • Ordered to compile the Book of Wu together with the Gentleman-in-Attendance Xiang Jun

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History · vol. 53

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    孙权末年任太史令,奉命撰《吴书》