At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, social contradictions were sharp, and peasant uprisings broke out one after another. After years of war, Zhu Yuanzhang wiped out heroes, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty.
During the period of people's displacement, Luo Guanzhong, as a writer of zaju and storytelling, lived at the bottom of society, understood and was familiar with people's sufferings, expected social stability and people's living and working in peace and contentment, and thought as a bottom-level intellectual, hoping to end the tragic situation caused by unrest. Thus came the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was based on the history of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The History of the Three Kingdoms, written by Chen Shou in the Western Jin Dynasty, is the earliest source of the story of the Three Kingdoms, but it is a biographical history book with a brief record and an outline. Pei Songzhi, a native of the Southern Song Dynasty, added many anecdotes to Notes on the History of the Three Kingdoms, which greatly enhanced the legend and readability. On the basis of Chen Shou's History of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi's notes, Luo Guanzhong absorbed folklore, scripts and drama stories and wrote The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the history of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, mainly describing the war, telling the story of the warlord melee in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and military struggle between Wei, Shu and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
The book can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow turban insurrectionary, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, competing among the heroes, the Three Kingdoms' separation, and the Three Kingdoms' return to Jin. On the vast historical stage, a magnificent war scene was staged. Luo Guanzhong, the author, combines the thirty-six strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War between the lines, including both the plot and the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
social influence
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms created more than 400 characters, described the historical process of nearly a hundred years, and created a new novel genre, which not only made readers at that time "copy for viewing", but also inspired scribes and booksellers to continue writing and publishing similar novels. Since Jiajing, various historical romances have mushroomed and come out constantly, from the beginning to the present.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a bodyguard was promoted to general Jingzhou, and the whole family happily congratulated him. But the man was unhappy and cried instead. Everyone was surprised and asked why. The man replied: I can't even keep this place in Jingzhou. It's obviously killing me to send me here now! This anecdote recorded in Miscellaneous Notes of Bamboo Leaf Pavilion reflects the profound influence of Romance of the Three Kingdoms on the spiritual world of later generations from one side, which makes this person confused about literature and reality.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is famous all over the world and is also welcomed by foreign readers. In the third year of Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty (1569), it had spread to North Korea, and in the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Amin published The History of the Three Kingdoms, which was collected in Oxford University, England.
Since the Japanese version of Popular Three Kingdoms was compiled and published by Japanese monk Wenshan in the 28th year of Kangxi (1689), Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Britain, France, Russia and many other countries have translated their own languages, published many research papers and monographs, and made valuable discussions and high comments on the novel Romance of Three Kingdoms.
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