San Da San Guo

Author: Zhang Renhao
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: Laughing at history, satirizing the various aspects of the secular world; deconstructing classics, bringing timeless masterpieces to a new light. Ma Su was truly unjust, but who could blame him for being Zhuge Liang's subordinate? Before, I only knew Zhuge Liang was smart, but now I realize that Adou is even smarter than Zhuge Liang. This book is born from the laughter at history in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, breaking tradition and reinterpreting classics—it's not history, yet it surpasses history. The book contains thirty-three absurd and even farcical stories, where the true intention lies not in the wine but in "adding spice to the historical ingredients," using the past to reflect the present. To savor its essence, one must be like Liu Bei and Cao Cao in Boiling Wine to Discuss Heroes—boil a pot of green plum wine, get utterly drunk, and in the midst of half-true, half-hallucinated, half-asleep moments, suddenly hear a thunderclap above your head, enlightening you like a sudden dousing of cold water, leading to a moment of profound realization and spiritual awakening.