Among them, Mao Zonggang's father and son edition is the most prominent, and it is known as the first gifted scholar's book. Modern People's Literature Publishing House deleted Shi Mao's comments, corrected some mistakes and added some notes on the basis of the Mao version, which became a better popular version. However, due to the limitation of the research level in the past, there are still many "technical errors" in the collating edition of People's Literature Publishing House, including textual errors, geographical errors, official errors, calendar errors and other types of errors. Nevertheless, it is still the version with the largest circulation.
Since 1980s, many publishing houses have sorted it out, but few of them have academic value. Among them, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published by Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House, has been highly praised by academic circles and readers, and is regarded as the best version so far. Correct a large number of "technical mistakes" in the book, and list them in turn in the form of "checklist", point out where the mistakes are, put forward correction opinions, and explain the basis for correction; At the same time, comment on what readers don't know or what is specious, and explain it in simple terms, giving people a new understanding.
It's an ancient version, but it's better to add notes to make it easier to understand. And because The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has some years, and there are some differences in various versions of some characters, it is best to read the ancient version of this annotation! In the vernacular/you might as well watch TV dramas directly. There are differences in the translation of ancient Chinese into vernacular, and the exquisiteness of ancient Chinese is also lost!