Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, and it is the first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel in China.
An important feature of The Romance of Three Kingdoms is that it is based on history [16]. The purpose of the author's creation is to describe a vivid history of the rise and fall of the Three Kingdoms, during which the intention of summing up historical experiences and lessons is very clear. The narrative of the novel begins in the first year of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty (184) and ends in the first year of Taikang of Jin Dynasty (280), which completely describes the rise, development and demise of Shu, Wei and Wu. Drawing lessons from the compiling mode of chronological history books, the novel takes the historical process of the Three Kingdoms War as the main line and the rise and fall of Wang Ye as the main line, and organically organizes historical stories for nearly a hundred years. It mainly describes the political and military struggles in the Three Kingdoms period, and the author's interest lies in revealing how various military groups flourished and perished in this period. For example, the main content of the first 33 chapters is the struggle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and the focus of contradiction is the struggle between the two factions. The author compares them many times, focusing on the summary of the lessons of rise and fall, which is the main idea of the author. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the last fifteen chapters mainly shows the contradictions within the Three Kingdoms, especially the profound description of Sima's usurpation of Wei, the trust of the empress and the tyranny of Sun Hao. Although the plot is short, the focus is still on how to live and how to die. With the attitude of seeking truth from facts, the author objectively and completely shows the historical process of more than 100 years, and the summary of historical experience and lessons has left a lot of inspiration for future generations, which is very attractive.