張華
Chen Shou received acclaim from his contemporaries for his work and was praised as an excellent historian. Around the time, another historian, Xiahou Zhan (夏侯湛), was writing the "Book of Wei" (魏書; "Wei Shu"), which recorded the history of Wei in the Three Kingdoms era. He destroyed his work after reading Chen Shou's "Sanguozhi". Zhang Hua was so deeply impressed with the "Sanguozhi" that he told Chen Shou, "We should entrust the responsibility of writing the "Book of Jin" to you." Chen Shou was highly regarded as such after he wrote the "Sanguozhi".