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Public Research Notes and Limitations

This area publishes the original sources and limitations currently used by the Shiji Sanguo site: verifiable events, details not inferable from the material, and unfinished manuscript comparisons are listed separately.

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Original Sources Already Compared #

Limitations and Unresolved Questions #

Avoid Overinterpretation

Sanguozhi says “Sun Jian's army” killed Hua Xiong; this sentence does not establish that Sun Jian personally beheaded him.

Silence in the Historical Records

The absence of a Peach Garden ceremony in the historical records does not prove there was no private oath of any kind; it only means the biographies cited here do not record it.

Versions and Quoted Annotations

The main text's Inspector story differs in detail from Dianlüe; the two numbers of blows cannot be merged as one original text.

Book Comparisons Still Await Verification

Shiji Sanguo's text and chapter correspondences have not completed final-manuscript QA. “How this book tells it” and unreviewed excerpts are not filled in ahead of time.

How to Request Corrections #

No public correction-submission channel is available yet. There is currently no usable form, official social page, or public contact email, so corrections cannot be submitted on this site. You may save the template below for submission when an official channel opens. Downloading does not mean delivery and does not upload any data.

Editorial Choices in Each Case #

Death of Hua Xiong ↗

Sun Jian's biography attributes the victory to “Sun Jian's army.” We use army-level attribution without naming an unrecorded personal killer; the novel's Guan Yu episode is separately listed as literary narrative.

Sanguozhi, Volume 46, Sun Polu and Sun Taoni Biographies ↗

Peach Garden Oath ↗

We use Guan Yu's biography's records of joint service and closeness. The Peach Garden ceremony stays in the novel column; absence from the history is not expanded into absolute nonexistence.

Sanguozhi, Volume 36, Guan–Zhang–Ma–Huang–Zhao Biographies ↗

Inspector Incident ↗

The main Biography of the Former Lord is the basis of the main-text column; Dianlüe's different number and episode, quoted in the annotations, are listed separately rather than merged into a supposed original passage.

Sanguozhi, Volume 32, Biography of the Former Lord ↗

Borrowing Arrows with Straw Boats ↗

Wu Li and Wei Lüe offer different accounts quoted in the same volume. They are presented together without resolving the conflict, and Sun Quan's inspection of the enemy is not directly identified as the novel episode's sole source.

Sanguozhi, Volume 47, Biography of the Lord of Wu ↗

Borrowing the East Wind ↗

Zhou Yu's main biography and Jiangbiao Zhuan are labeled as separate layers. Wind direction can be checked, but its recording does not prove the novel's wind-summoning magic.

Sanguozhi, Volume 54, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng Biographies ↗

Meeting with a Single Blade ↗

Lu Su's biography supports the two sides carrying single blades and the distance of their stationed troops. Challenges in negotiation express the parties' positions; one side's words alone cannot settle ownership of Jing Province.

Sanguozhi, Volume 54, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, and Lü Meng Biographies ↗

Revision History #

2026-09-29.13
88 historical-source entries are divided into 66 personal relationships and 22 historical events. The people layer shows only status and personal ties; recommendations, ability assessments, troop dispatches, and killings remain in event data, not personal relationships. Verified intersections and pages for Ma Teng, Han Sui, Ma Dai, Zhang Lu, Han Xuan, and Liu Pan were added. This is not a complete biography collection or a full Three Kingdoms database.
2026-09-29.3
Information hierarchy corrected: the first level distinguishes armies, people, battles, and events. Removed the erroneous design splitting Zhang He before and after his change of allegiance into two top-level entries. All paths reference one person; successive affiliations and biography stay within that person. Relationships increased to 72, still not a complete Three Kingdoms database.
2026-09-25.2
Person summaries changed from a single relationship to main-biography overviews; figures with scant evidence are labeled accordingly. Added straw-boat arrows, east-wind borrowing, and single-blade meeting cases, separating main text and variant quoted accounts. Full articles are synchronized in Markdown, with section anchors and citation information added.
2026-09-25.1
Initial publication of relationships, the Hua Xiong, Peach Garden, and Inspector cases, and research limitations.

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Main Biographies and Sources for Added Cases #

Person overviews now return to their main biographies rather than treating a graph edge as a complete life. Hua Xiong and Yan Liang have less evidence and are explicitly labeled limited-evidence profiles. sameAs links and birth and death dates not checked against external entities remain blank.

Preserve Variant Accounts; Do Not Fabricate a Settled Conclusion #

Inspecting the army at Ruxu: Wu Li, quoted in the annotations to the Biography of the Lord of Wu, says Cao Cao forbade indiscriminate bow and crossbow fire, whereas Wei Lüe records a boat struck by arrows. This site lists both separately and does not identify the novel's Kongming arrow-borrowing story with this event.

Wind at Chibi: Zhou Yu's main biography describes a fierce wind; the explicit southeast wind appears in Jiangbiao Zhuan quoted in the annotations. These source layers must not be conflated.

Jing Province negotiations: Lu Su's biography includes both sides' positions and annotated versions; ownership cannot be decided solely from one side's accusations.

This revision corrects overly narrow person summaries and completes three sets of comparisons. These are website source syntheses, not evidence that every historical source and chapter in the entire book has been verified.

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