Sun Shao

Why Sun Shao does not have a biography in the Sanguozhi Although Sun Shao served as the first Imperial Chancellor of Eastern Wu, there is very little information about him recorded in history. For instance, unlike many other notable persons of his time, he does not have a biography in the third-century historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi), the authoritative source for the history of the Three Kingdoms period.

The Zhi Lin recorded that Liu Shengshu , a polymath, once attempted to explain why Sun Shao did not have a biography in the Sanguozhi. Xiang Jun and Ding Fu , whom Sun Quan put in charge of writing the history of Eastern Wu, had already written a biography for Sun Shao. However, after coming to the throne, Sun Quan's successor Sun Liang replaced Xiang Jun and Ding Fu with Wei Zhao, who was known to be close to Zhang Wen, one of the two officials who made accusations against Sun Shao. Liu Shengshu speculated that Wei Zhao probably removed the information about Sun Shao when he took over the job of writing the history of Eastern Wu from Xiang Jun and Ding Fu.