Pei Songzhi (372–451),
courtesy name Shiqi, was a historian and politician who lived in the late
Eastern Jin dynasty and the
Liu Song dynasty. His
ancestral home was in Wenxi, Hedong (present-day
Wenxi County,
Yuncheng,
Shanxi) but he moved to the
Jiangnan region later. Pei is best known for making
annotations to the historical text
Records of the Three Kingdoms written by
Chen Shou in the 3rd century, providing additional details omitted from the original work. His commentary, completed in 429, became integral to later editions of
Records of the Three Kingdoms, making the joint work three times as long as the original. Two of his descendants, Pei Yin (裴駰) and Pei Ziye (裴子野), were also well known historians.