Who is the author of Purple Tongzhi Sword?

Author of Zi Tongzhi Jian: Sima Guang.

Zi Tong Zhi Jian is a multi-volume chronological history book edited by Sima Guang, a historian of the Northern Song Dynasty, with a total of 294 volumes, which took 19 years to complete. It is mainly about time and events, which began in the 23rd year of Zhou Weilie (403 BC) and ended in the 6th year of Xiande, Zhou Shizong after the Five Dynasties (959 AD), covering the history of Sixteen Dynasties 1.362 years.

Creative background:

Tong Jian was carefully finalized by Sima Guang, with unified rhetoric, beautiful words and vivid narration, which has high literary value. It has been listed as a masterpiece of ancient historians in China along with Historical Records. In addition to narratives, he also selected 97 historical papers of predecessors and wrote 1 18 historical papers in the form of Yue, which reflected the author's political historical view.

It is an important progress of historical thought to take a critical attitude towards religious superstitions such as divination and Buddhism and Taoism in history.

After Tong Jian was written, in the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Fan Zuyu, Sima Kang, Huang Tingjian and Zhang Shunmin were ordered to revise it again. After the revision in the first year of Yuan You (1086), it was sent to Hangzhou for engraving and published in the seventh year of Yuanyou.

Now, Yuan Youben is out of sight. In the second year of Emperor Gaozong Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 132), Yuyao reprinted it, which is also incomplete. Zhonghua Book Company, according to the original edition reprinted by Hu Kejia in Qing Dynasty, is a better version of Tong Jian.