Li Guowen - The Three Kingdoms of the World

Author: Li Guowen
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is one of the most famous and outstanding long, chaptered historical novels in the history of Chinese fiction. The author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms was 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 were widely circulated, even children were familiar with them. With the development of urban literature, the "storytellers" of the Song Dynasty had already specialized in telling Three Kingdoms stories, which were then called "telling the Three Kingdoms." The Romance of the Three Kingdoms that emerged in the Yuan Dynasty was essentially a manuscript used by storytellers. Although it was relatively brief and rough, it had already begun to take shape like Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Based on popular legends and the creations of folk artists, Luo Guanzhong also drew on the materials cited in Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi's annotations (which also included materials from Records of the Time and its annotations). Through immense creative effort, he wrote the magnificent masterpiece—Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a remarkable book. It is a historical novel that can be considered the most widely circulated and profoundly influential in Chinese classical literature. Throughout history, countless writers, scholars, and intellectuals have commented on and reviewed it. The renowned writer Li Guowen provides a contemporary perspective on the entire work, with introductory quotes before each chapter and summaries after each chapter, offering a concise overview of the chapter. He also provides on-the-spot comments and analyzes the wording and writing. Therefore, this book not only offers a literary and artistic perspective, historical, but also evaluations of thought, society, life, and reality. Reading it allows one not only to revisit the artistic essence of the classical masterpiece but also to gain historical lessons and insights from its rise and fall.