However, it's probably that the extremes meet. In recent years, with the growth of my age (I am 34 years old), I have read more and more widely (I worked in a translation consulting company after graduating from liberal arts), and I began to dislike the Three Kingdoms more and more. I began to think that this book was too superficial and there was no suspense. The language is so crude and monotonous that it is purely the level of a storyteller in the Ming Dynasty (no wonder Hu Shi said that this book is a work of "poor Confucianism in the early Ming Dynasty" and it is. The difference between this story and history books is too great. Liu Bei's hypocrisy is disgusting, Cao Cao's degradation makes people burst into tears, Zhuge Liang's intelligence is particularly annoying, and Guan Yu's life is cold and he wants to die. People love to say that "The Three Kingdoms are classic tactics". How many real tactics are there in this book? How many secret rooms are well thought out? How many profound and practical strategies are there? At best, it is only a "historical overhead novel" of the Ming Dynasty. The name and place are true, and then make it up according to the author's preference! Little Japanese devils are ignorant and worship this book all over the country (they often use video games to bring down the Three Kingdoms, and they also brag about managing enterprises in the Three Kingdoms. Actually, it's exaggerated The key to Japan's economic rise is the modern management system, which has nothing to do with the three countries), so my big country is also booed. Does the Three Kingdoms match?
In fact, I think the Three Kingdoms are the worst writers among the four classical novels, without the brilliance of a Dream of Red Mansions, the delicacy and vividness of the Water Margin, the free and easy humor of Journey to the West, and even the thorough understanding of the world by Jin Pingmei, the rooted history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the simple and fascinating reading of Wei Caotang's notes, the whimsy of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, and the reckless silence of Zi. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is similar to the so-called Yue Legend and Sui and Tang Romances in ancient books. They are all typical "themes first" and are the manuscripts of novels. Have you noticed that Zhang Fei and Cheng are similar? Zhuge Liang, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Lu Su, Zhou Yu and Sun Quan are all single-minded, without inner struggle and thinking, independent personality and pursuit, repetition and subtlety of human nature.
The so-called battle of wits and courage in the Three Kingdoms is actually very low-level (see Sima Guang's Zi Tongzhi Sword and Feng Menglong's Think Tank, which are the bibles of tactics and tactics), rough and random, with a strong tendency. Anyway, Zhuge Liang was right and the enemy was wrong. They are all compiled by vulgar literati at home at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, which is useless in reality. Only Emperor Chongzhen, who was over 250 in the late Ming Dynasty, would be fooled by Huang Taiji. Don't tell me what Yi Zhongtian said about the Three Kingdoms, it is based on the reflection of the Three Kingdoms (attached to Zhang Zuoyao's Biography of Cao Cao). Luo Guanzhong's version of Romance is a clown, just like Yao's version of Li Zicheng, which seriously distorts history and is the shame of China literati. In fact, there are many wisdom essences in China's ancient books: Tao Te Ching, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Han Feizi, Thirty-six Strategies, Zi Tong Zhi Jian, Think Tank, Quotations from Zeng Bing and so on. Why do you have to cling to the Three Kingdoms?