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Source "Old Tang Book Wei Zhi Biography"?

Li Shimin: Husband takes copper as a mirror, history as a mirror, and knows the rise and fall, and people as a mirror, and knows the gains and losses. Take success or failure in history as a warning. Take history as a mirror.

Anecdotal allusions

In the seventeenth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (AD 643), Wei Zhi, who dared to speak out, died of illness. Emperor Taizong was very sad. He said with tears: "My husband can dress himself up with copper as a mirror; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; Take people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses. Wei Zhi didn't, I died a mirror! "

"A person with copper as a mirror can see whether the clothes and hats are properly dressed; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the reasons for the rise and fall of the country; Looking at people as a mirror, you can find your own right and wrong. After Kevin·Z died, I lost a good mirror. " -This is the best interpretation of Wei Zhi's life value. Now there is also a saying that "taking history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall", which also means this.

Using copper as a mirror can tidy up a person's clothes; Taking history as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs in history; Taking others as a mirror, you can know your daily gains and losses.

Extended data:

There are 200 volumes of Old Tang Book, including 20 volumes of Ji, 30 volumes of Shi Lu and Biography 150. Originally named Tang Shu, the New Tang Shu edited by Song Qi and Ouyang Xiu was renamed Old Tang Shu after its publication, which was published in the later Jin Dynasty. ?

The compilation of the Book of Old Tang Dynasty is not far from the demise of the Tang Dynasty, and the sources of information are also relatively rich.

However, the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty has only been circulated for about a hundred years, and it has met with bad luck. Starting from the Qing Dynasty in Song Renzong, the court in the Northern Song Dynasty thought that the old books of the Tang Dynasty were miscellaneous but not refined, and ordered Song Qi and Ouyang Xiu to compile the Books of the Tang Dynasty. This Tang book was written in 1060 (Jia _ 5 years) and began to "spread to the world". Since then, the Book of the Tang Dynasty compiled by Liu has stopped circulating. straight

In the 17th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1538), Wen Renquan, a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, borrowed the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty from Suzhou and asked Suzhou Supervisor Shentong to proofread and print the manuscript in Suzhou (Wen Renquan left Suzhou in the middle of his work, but the matter continued with the support of many parties). Liu Tangshu, who has experienced a bumpy fate for 478 years,

In order to distinguish these two kinds of Tang books, later generations named Liu _ at the end of Jin Dynasty as the old Tang book, and later Tang books such as Song Qi as the new Tang book. After the publication of New Book of Tang Dynasty, Old Book of Tang Dynasty was almost abandoned by people for a long time.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Old Tang Books