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 pondering 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 such a hassle, you might as well follow your own inclinations—begin 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’s historians, critics, or even the newer breed of "players" of history today, though they may vary in wisdom and standing, when faced with the infinite vicissitudes of time and space, they all seem like carefree young men who have never known sorrow. Even if they walk through the willows by the roadside and use all the most beautiful words in their vocabulary, how can they possibly taste even a fraction of its true essence? Want to hear tales of heroes? That’s even simpler—his miraculous finger of Avalokite?vara instantly flips to the Three Kingdoms.