2. Introduction to the author of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms: Luo Guanzhong (about1330-about 1400), a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The name of this book, in the middle of the word, is Hu Hai III, Han nationality, from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Luo Guanzhong participated in the anti-Yuan uprising in his early years. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he devoted himself to literary creation.
Luo Guanzhong's novels include Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, History of Tang and Five Dynasties, and Biography of Three Sui Dynasties.
Among them, the well-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms) is Luo Guanzhong's masterpiece, which has a far-reaching influence on later literary creation. Luo Guanzhong has many artistic talents. In addition to novel creation, there is also a drama "Zhao Taizu Dragon and Tiger Club".
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1, Mao Lun, Zi Deyin, Hao Shan, a literary critic in Ming Dynasty. He and Jin Shengtan are contemporaries. He was also famous at that time, but he was poor all his life. When people are blind in middle age, they entertain themselves by commenting on pipa and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When storytelling, he dictated it, and then his son Mao Zonggang revised, processed and finalized it.
2. Mao Zonggang (1632 ~ 1709), born in the fifth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, was a literary critic in the early Qing Dynasty in China. Mao Zonggang is the reviser of the existing Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There were some changes in the plot, including additions and deletions. He also rearranged books, revised words and changed poems.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong's Novel)