Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Author: Luo Guanzhong
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Based on folk legends and the creations of artists, Luo Guanzhong also drew upon the materials cited in Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi's annotations (including materials from The New Tales of the World and its annotations). Through immense creative effort, he wrote the grand masterpiece—Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and is a famous and outstanding long, chaptered historical novel in the history of Chinese fiction. The author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Luo Guanzhong, a person from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Before its completion, the "Three Kingdoms story" had already undergone hundreds of years of historical development. In the Tang Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms story was widely circulated, even children were familiar with it. With the development of urban literature, the "storytellers" of the Song Dynasty had already specialized in telling the Three Kingdoms story, which was then called "telling the Three Kingdoms." The Three Kingdoms Story that emerged in the Yuan Dynasty was actually a manuscript used by storytellers. Although it was relatively brief and rough, it had already begun to take the scale of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Based on folk legends and the creations of artists, Luo Guanzhong also drew upon the materials cited in Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi's annotations (including materials from The New Tales of the World and its annotations). Through immense creative effort, he wrote the grand masterpiece—Romance of the Three Kingdoms.