Brother, brother, the whole world is amused.

The whole world thinks it's a joke to give my brother a wedding.

This sentence comes from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, which is a historical and literary work. The edition of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty has gone through a complicated process.

In the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zhao annotated thirty volumes of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty and Li Xian annotated Shu Fan. It was not until the first edition of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty in the fifth year of Chunhua in Song Taizong (AD 994) and the revised edition of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty in the second year of Jingdezhen in Song Zhenzong (AD 1005) that the sequel books were included. In the first year of Ganxing (A.D. 1022), due to Sun Ying's suggestion, later editions attached the sequel to Fan Zhuan's edition. So is the Ji Gu Pavilion in Shi Mao.

In the Ming Dynasty, Sima Biao's name was erased when the prison edition was engraved, and Liu Zhao's annotation was changed to a supplementary annotation. In the Qing Dynasty, Wuying Palace also carved the light prison edition. In this way, it is easy to make people mistakenly think that eight local chronicles are supplemented by Liu Zhao's notes.

They are:

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty is a historical and literary work compiled by Ye Fan, a historian of the Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, and belongs to one of the "Twenty-four History". History of the Later Han Dynasty, Historical Records, History of the Han Dynasty and History of the Three Kingdoms are collectively called "the first four histories".

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty is divided into ten chapters, eighty biographies and eight records (from Sima Biao's Continued Han Dynasty). The book mainly describes the historical events of *** 195 from the first year of Jianwu, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25) to the 25th year of Jian 'an, Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty (AD 220).

Most of The Book of the Later Han Dynasty followed the ready-made styles of Historical Records and Han Shu, but in the process of writing, Ye Fan made some innovations and changes according to the specific characteristics of Han Shu and the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty.