Is “The famous 'indulging in pleasure and forgetting home' episode of Liu Shan in the novel is actually not recorded in the main text of Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms.” true?
In Chapter 119 of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, when Sima Zhao hosted a banquet for Liu Shan and asked him 'Do you miss Shu?', Liu Shan replied: 'I am so happy here that I do not miss Shu.' Subsequently, he made a fool of himself by reciting Xi Zheng's words and being seen through. However, comparing with the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Book of Shu, Biography of the Later Lord, Chen Shou's main text only records that after Liu Shan surrendered to Jin, he was 'granted a fief of ten thousand households, ten thousand bolts of silk, a hundred slaves... and died in Luoyang in the seventh year of Taishi.' There is no dialogue about 'indulging in pleasure and forgetting home' at all. This episode actually comes from the annotation of Pei Songzhi, citing the Han Jin Chunqiu. It can be seen that the novel absorbed the hearsay from Pei's annotation to shape the character.
The famous 'indulging in pleasure and forgetting home' episode is not recorded in the main text of the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
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