At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Luo Guanzhong absorbed folklore, scripts and drama stories on the basis of Chen Shou's "The History of the Three Kingdoms" and Pei Songzhi's notes, and wrote The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The earliest extant edition was published in the first year of Jiajing (1522), and it is called Jiajing edition, and its title is "The Biography of Pingyang Hou, Jin and Later Learning Robben".
After Jiajing edition, a large number of new periodicals appeared, all of which were mainly Jiajing edition, and only did some work such as illustration, textual research, annotation, addition and deletion of words, volume number and sorting purpose. During the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, Mao Lun and Mao Zonggang and his son made some revisions to Jiajing's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, mainly sorting out the contents and modifying the wording. Change poetry, etc. The content has not changed much. ?
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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.
Liu Zhixi, a historian in the middle Tang Dynasty, said in Shi Tong that the story of Zhuge Liang's death has been "learned from his journey and spread to many people", which shows that the story of the Three Kingdoms has been widely spread among the people during this period. In Li Shangyin's "Pride of Children" in the late Tang Dynasty, there is a poem "teasing Zhang or laughing at Deng Ai to eat", which shows that the story of the Three Kingdoms has been known to women and children at the latest in the late Tang Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, the story of the Three Kingdoms became more popular through artists' performances and rap, and it has shown an obvious tendency of "respecting Liu and belittling Cao". The stories of the Three Kingdoms in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties were put on the stage in large numbers, and there were also many stories of the Three Kingdoms in school books and dramas. According to Ghost Record and Taihe Yinzhengpu, there are nearly 30 kinds of works telling the story of the Three Kingdoms in Yuan Zaju alone.
The Jin Dynasty recorded in the Record of Dropping Out of Farming includes Xiangyang Club, Liu Bei, Lu Bu and Chibi Soldiers. During the period from Yuan Yingzong to Zhi Zhi (1321-1323), A Commentary on the Three Kingdoms published by Xin 'an Shi Yu came out, which was the earliest and only commentary on the story of the Three Kingdoms. This book is a folklore.
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