英雄记

《英雄记》，又称《汉末英雄记》，是记录东汉末年的史书。内容记载了汉末军阀的事绩。作者为王粲。此书久佚。明代时王世间首先杂钞诸书辑录逸，大致取材于裴注《三国志》。后又有宛委本《说郛》《汉魏丛书》及黄奭《黄氏逸书》均有辑本，而以黄奭辑本最称精洽。近人俞绍初辑校的《建安七子集》中附有黄奭未辑出的《英雄记》佚文9条。

内容概要

撰写年代不明，但从《英雄记》内容明确记载208年的周瑜火攻曹操记录来看，其著作下限当在王粲死去以前（217年之前）。

《隋书·经籍志》载“《汉末英雄记》八卷，王粲撰，残缺。梁有十卷。”《旧唐书·经籍志》载“《汉末英雄记》十卷，王粲等撰。”《新唐书》大抵同。此《汉末英雄记》应即《英雄记》。关于“汉末”之句据《四库全书总目》考察：“按王粲卒于建安中，其时黄星虽兆，王步未更，不应名书以‘汉末’，似后人之所追题。然考粲《从军诗》己称曹操为圣君，则敛以魏为新朝，此名不足怪矣。”

又姚振宗《后汉艺文志》云：“按《续汉·郡国志》‘会稽郡’注引《英雄交争记》，言初平三年事，似即此书本名为《英雄交争记》，后人省‘交争’字，加‘汉末’字；又其中不尽王粲一人之作，故《旧唐志》题‘王粲等撰’。”

The Records of Heroes (英雄記), also known as the Records of Late Han Heroes (漢末英雄記) is a Chinese historical text of the end of the Han dynasty. Written by contemporary historian Wang Can, it contains various stories of the late Han warlords. The book was lost at some point in history, and the only surviving accounts of it are from the Annotated Records of the Three Kingdoms by Pei Songzhi as fragmentary annotations. During the Ming dynasty, Wang Shijian (王世間) compiled these fragments and published them as a collection.

The exact year in which it was written cannot be ascertained. However, among its stories which are clearly defined by year, was the anecdote that "in the middle of Battle of Red Cliff (208 CE), Cao Cao tried to cross the Yangtze River by connecting lots of rafts, however, as Zhou Yu delivered fire attacks on it, Cao Cao had to retreat" It is likely that the book was written between 208 and 217 when Wang Can died.

The Book of Sui recorded that "There were eight volumes by Wang Can named Records of Late Han Heroes. They are lost. There were 10 volumes during the Liang (梁) period."

The Old Book of Tang recorded that "[one of] Wang Can's ten volumes were named Records of Late Han Heroes". Here it is likely that Records of Late Han Heroes is identical to Records of Heroes.

Regarding the words "Late Han" in the title, the Annotated Bibliography of the Four Treasuries argued that "presumably, Wang Can died when the Han dynasty still existed. Though there were so many symptoms that the Han dynasty was near its death, Emperor Xian still was on the throne. Wang Can surely could not use the words of "Late Han" as the title of his book, therefore "Late Han" is thought to be introduced by future generations. However, as Wang Can described Cao Cao as "holy ruler" (聖君) in his "A Poem of Military Service" (從軍詩), we cannot say with full certainty that Wang Can did not put "Late Han" in the title of his book".