Romance of the Three Kingdoms Illustrated Anthology

Author: Luo Guanzhong
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The Illustrated Edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms references the authoritative text version, ensuring the quality of the classic. At the same time, the editor has carefully selected exquisite illustrations for this book, primarily from the Ming Dynasty edition of One Hundred and Eight Chapters of the New Chronicles of the Warring States. Additionally, some illustrations are selected from various generations of embroidery illustrations. These pictures are grand and majestic, exquisite and vivid, reflecting the understanding and interpretation of the Three Kingdoms story by predecessors, giving this book higher collectible and appreciative value. The Illustrated Edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a historical novel. As mentioned above, it is based on folk legends while also striving to follow the Records of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi’s 8 annotations. Therefore, Zhang Xuecheng in his Notes of the Bicheng Year described it as “seven parts fact, three parts fiction.” Mao Zonggang in Reading Method of Romance of the Three Kingdoms pointed out: “The narrative of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is as excellent as Records of the Grand Historian, and its narrative difficulty is even twice as great as that of Records of the Grand Historian.” The learned man Yongyu in his Chronicles of Facts also comes close to history. It is intended that readers of all kinds can understand it, just like the meaning of folk songs in the Book of Songs. “These comments, to a certain extent, reveal the reasons why Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been passed down for a long time and is highly revered, which is also its value.