Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Author: Ming Luo Guanzhong
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: ▼ Complete Content ▼ Sandalwood Aroma ▼ Compact and Lightweight ▼ Original Illustrations ▼ Portable ——"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a long, episodic novel and one of the most famous long novels, having been passed down for millennia and cherished by readers across all social strata. Familiar proverbs we know well, such as "Swearing Brotherhood in the Peach Garden," "Meeting the Enemy with a Single Blade," and "Liu Bei Borrowing Jingzhou," all originate from the stories in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." The impressions people today have of historical figures from the Three Kingdoms period, such as Cao Cao's cunning and Guan Yu's unwavering righteousness, are also the result of these characters deeply ingraining themselves in the public consciousness. To a large extent, it has shaped how Chinese people perceive the history of the Three Kingdoms. Compared to other historical periods, we are almost intimately familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, largely thanks to this historical romance. ——"Romance of the Three Kingdoms," with its scale of seven hundred and fifty thousand words, employs a mature narrative style to portray over four hundred characters and depict nearly a century of historical progression, presenting a grand and epic scene......