Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Upper and Lower)

Author: Luo Guanzhong
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is a famous and outstanding long narrative historical novel in the chaptered form 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 stories" had already undergone hundreds of years of historical development. In the Tang Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms stories had become widely popular, even children were familiar with them. With the development of urban literature and arts, the "storytellers" of the Song Dynasty had specialized in telling Three Kingdoms stories, which were 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 referred to the materials cited in the Records of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou and the annotations by Pei Songzhi (including materials from the New Tales of the World and its annotations). Through immense creative effort, he wrote the magnificent masterpiece—Romance of the Three Kingdoms.