《三国志》"品藻典雅"平议

陈寿叙三国的历史很善于品评人物,其着眼点主要在于品德节操、器量才识、功业实绩和体貌风度等几个方面,在具体的分析评价中,他很注重把三国时期各种类型的人物作纵向或横向比较,并坚持“不求备于一人”,瑕瑜互见,功过二分,谈到三国的兴亡和有关人物的成败,陈寿讲天命、天时,但更注重器识谋略等人物自身的因素,由此形成其很富有个性特点的“人谋”史观。

On Three Kingdoms' "Refined Moral character and Integrity"

Chenshou was good at commenting the characters of Three Kingdoms, with focus on their moral character and principle, tolerance, talent and insight, achievements and contribution, and appearance, conduct and manner. In his analyzing and commenting the characters he paid attention to compare the characters of different categories horizontally and vertically and did not expect "all strong points possessed in one person", with the result that defects and merits can both be found in a person as a flaw in a jade. On Three Kingdoms' rise and fall, and concerned characters' success and failure, Chenshou not only attributed them to the mandate of heaven and opportunity, but also to the factors of the characters themselves with regard to capability and judgement, and resourcefulness and astuteness, etc. , having established his conception of history of "human decides", which is characteristic of his own.