The History of the Song Dynasty, Tian Wenzhi, is voluminous. It not only describes the stars in the whole sky in detail, but also records all kinds of astronomical phenomena in the Song Dynasty. It also introduces the brief situation of the manufacture of armymen, water transport armymen and instrument platform in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are the full texts of three papers written by Shen Kuo, which are important materials in the history of astronomy.

The History of Jin is the most concise in the history of Song, Liao and Jin, but it seems unreasonable to put the contents of astronomical instruments in the history of Jin. It describes that the musical instruments of the Northern Song Dynasty were transported back to Beijing to return the gold after the destruction of the Song Dynasty, which provided precious historical materials for the vicissitudes of musical instruments in the case of repeated destruction.

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