Book of Liang

• The Book of Liang is part of the Twenty Four Histories of China covering the period between 3,000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty of the 17th century CE.
• Each Dynasty is covered by one or more Books

The Books

• Records of the Grand Historian
  • written by Sima Qian in 91 BCE, is the earliest Book covering the Period of Ancient China from the Yellow Emperor c. 2,697 BCE to c. 109 BCE under the Han Dynasty.

• Book of Han
  • written by Ban Gu in 111 CE, covers the Han Dynasty from 206 BCE to 23 CE.

• The Book of Liang
  • covers the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) and was completed by Yao Silian by 636 CE.