Three Kingdoms: Modern Version

Author: Zhou Zexiong
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: How should one begin when writing a history spanning 24 dynasties? If you insist on this question, be prepared to spend twenty years in the "prison of history," because besides "starting from the beginning," there is no other way. If you don't want to go through so much trouble, you might as well follow your own inclinations—start wherever you like. For example, like me, starting directly with the Three Kingdoms. History is such an ancient figure; we can only try to glimpse its secrets, understand its nature, and observe its attire, but we can never hope to exhaust its depths. Whether it is the audience or critics of history (today, there is even a new group of "players" in history), though there are differences in wisdom and talent, when faced with the endless vicissitudes of time and space, they seem like carefree young gentlemen who have never known sorrow. Even if they bend all the willows by the roadside and use all the beautiful words in their language, how can they taste even a tiny bit of its true essence. Want to hear tales of heroes? That's even simpler—his magical finger of Avalokite?vara instantly flips to the Three Kingdoms.