What is the historical status of Romance of the Three Kingdoms? What is the category of Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms uses characters as carriers to vividly interpret the basic spirit of Chinese traditional culture, namely, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, trustworthiness, courage and other core elements of the value system of Chinese traditional culture. So, what is the historical status of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? What is the category of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Let's take a look at the introduction of the Encyclopedia Knowledge Network to answer these questions!

Contents of this article

1. The historical status of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

2. What is the category of Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

3. The meaning of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Historical Status of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

1. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with a scale of 750,000 words, uses a relatively mature novel language to create more than 400 characters, describes the course of history over nearly a hundred years, and creates a new genre of novel;

2. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms was introduced to Korea in the third year of the reign of Emperor Longqing of the Ming Dynasty. In the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, a Ming edition of the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms was collected by Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

3. Since the Japanese monk Hunan Wenshan compiled and published the Japanese version of "Popular Records of the Three Kingdoms" in the 28th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, many countries such as Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Britain, France, Russia, etc. have translated the novel into their own languages, and published many research papers and monographs, which made valuable discussions and high evaluations on the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

What is the category of Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is classified as the first long historical novel in chapter form in China. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four great classical Chinese novels. Its full name is Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The author is Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. After the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was completed, there were many versions such as the Jiajing Renwu version. In the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang rectified the chapter titles, revised the text, and changed the poems and essays of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the historical events of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty. It mainly describes wars, tells the story of the wars among the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the political and military struggles between Wei, Shu and Wu. In the end, Sima Yan unified the Three Kingdoms and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions in the Three Kingdoms era, summarizes the great historical changes of this era, and creates a group of powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms. The book can be roughly divided into five parts: the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the Warring States Period, the Three Kingdoms, and the Three Kingdoms' Return to the Jin Dynasty. On the vast historical stage, magnificent war scenes were staged. The author Luo Guanzhong integrated the Thirty-Six Strategies of War into the text, which not only contains plots but also military strategies.

The meaning of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

1. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the historical events of nearly 100 years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty. The book reflects the political and military struggles of the Three Kingdoms period, the penetration and transformation of various social contradictions in the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the great historical changes of this era, and creates a group of heroic figures.

2. In his understanding of the history of the Three Kingdoms, the author showed a clear tendency to support Liu Bei and oppose Cao Cao. He took Liu Bei's group as the center of his description, praised the main figures of Liu Bei's group, and strongly exposed and criticized Cao Cao. Today, we should have a dialectical understanding of the author's tendency to support Liu Bei and oppose Cao Cao. Respecting Liu and opposing Cao Cao is the main tendency of folk legends, which implied the people's hope for the revival of the Han nationality in Luo Guanzhong's time.