Cui Hong, a famous historian during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, most of his family members were officials, especially his uncle was an official of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so his influence on him was relatively large.
His uncle Cui Guang was also a famous historian, a master of the crown prince in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and once participated in the records of the Northern Wei State Book.
Because he had recorded and sorted out the books of history, he was well aware of the imperfections of the history books, and he was eager to find a talent who could take on this position.
Cui Hong has been deeply influenced by him since childhood, is very obsessed with history, and has his own understanding, and when he grows up, he has an ideal to write a history book that describes history very truthfully and perfectly.
The books he wanted to write were not limited to the Northern Wei Dynasty, he wanted to sort out the entire Sixteen Kingdoms of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Because he knew that the entire Southern and Northern Dynasties, starting from the war in the Western Jin Dynasty, they each established their own political power, although they were all ethnic minorities, but after all, they established a political power, and it can also be said that in history, they can also represent an era.
Therefore, he felt that he should record this period, pass on the experience and lessons of this period, and let future generations have a certain understanding of this history.
Each regime has its own national history, but it is a record of its own history, and it is still very imperfect, either because the relationship between time is incomplete, or the countries fight each other and destroy the books of a country's history without being sorted out.
After Cui Hong had this idea, he began to collect information from these sixteen countries, because when Cui Hong planned to start writing history books, the Northern Wei Dynasty had just moved to the capital, and the books of various countries were relatively scattered, and it was not easy to find them, so he spent all his family property in order to find these things, and finally he could not even afford to write history manuscript paper.
Because of the current situation of life, this book of history has been written for six years, and by 506, the "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms" was basically completed.
But in the end there were five volumes left unfinished, and he had waited for more than twenty years to write the remaining five volumes, and during those twenty years he had also searched around for these materials.
In the end, the effort paid off, and it was not until 522 that the "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms" was truly completed.
Cui Hong's "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms" is the most complete record at that time, and the most complete record of history, including characters.
The orthodox deeds of Jin were recorded, so he was not made public for fear of being punished, and was not made public until after his death.
After the publication of this book, there was a great response, and this "Spring and Autumn of the Sixteen Kingdoms" recorded this important stage of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history in great detail, and also became an important historical document for posterity to study the culture of the Sixteen Kingdoms.