The History of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou, setting the Wei Kingdom of the Cao family as the legitimacy, is a biographical book on the history of Wei, Shu and Wu. The book consists of altogether 65 volumes, including the historical records of Wei, Shu and Wu, with 30 volumes for the first, 15 for the second and 20 for the third.

Of the official historical records in a series of biographies in ancient China, the History of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou, Historical Records, History of the Former Han Dynasty and History of the Latter Han Dynasty are called the "First Four Books of History".