Romance of the Three Kingdoms (full name Romance of the Three Kingdoms), also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is a long-form historical romance novel created by the late Yuan and early Ming dynasty novelist Luo Guanzhong based on Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Pei Songzhi's annotations, as well as folk tales and legends of the Three Kingdoms.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Twenty-Four Histories, was written by the Historian Chen Shou of the Western Jin Dynasty, which records the history of cao wei, Shu Han, and eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period of China, and is one of the highest-rated "first four histories" in the twenty-four histories. The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms is also the most special of the Twenty-Four Histories, because it is too brief, and it does not record the "table" of the lineage of princes and hundreds of officials, nor does it record the "Zhi" of economy, geography, officials, ritual music, and legal calendar, which does not conform to the norms of general history established by the "Records of History" and the "Book of Han".
Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is more suitable for us to understand history? If from the perspective of popularization, it must be the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but if you look at it intensively, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms must be read, but in the final analysis, it is still the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that is the best, if you have to leave only one book, then it must still be the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
From a historical point of view, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a necessary history book, but what is written in the history books must be the real history? History is a little girl dressed up, because of the needs of future generations, history has been tampered with too much, even if what was recorded at that time, it is not necessarily accurate, even if it is heard with your own ears and seen with your own eyes, it must be true?
Nowadays, many people have taken out the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to criticize the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, saying that Guan Yu did not pass the five levels and behead six generals, Zhuge Liang did not borrow the East Wind, the straw boat borrowed arrows was actually the credit of Zhou Yu, Cao Cao was not so treacherous, and so on, and vigorously used the so-called "true history" of the Three Kingdoms Chronicle to deny the "false history" of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
ay! Luo Guanzhong of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms told you at the beginning that this was a rendition, and Chen Shou of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms told you at the beginning that he wrote history, and after thousands of years, is there really a difference between yanyi and history? If, according to what I said, who has a great influence on future generations is true history, is it so important to say that true or false? If Wu Yifan died in a car accident last year, he is a versatile handsome man in history, but unfortunately he did not die, and it seems that many people who speak on stage, NN legs, is what he said sincerely? Therefore, it does not matter whether history is true or false, what is important is to spread positive energy.
History is not true or false, inheritance is the true truth, for the continuation of the nation, the continuous progress of civilization, the common people regard the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as history, there is nothing wrong, after all, the twenty-four histories are not necessarily all true history, people worship Guan Yu Zhongyi, Zhuge Liang's wisdom, Zhao Yun's heroism is enough.
There are many more wonderful histories than the Three Kingdoms period, the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, the Five Hu Sixteen Kingdoms, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Northern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia Daliao, etc., are also the era of heroes, but no one has written works like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so the characters and events of these periods of history are rarely known, and compared with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is simply not worth mentioning.
This period of history of the Three Kingdoms, because of the existence of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, has become the most important part of Chinese civilization, and even affected the whole of Asia, and even the world, almost no Chinese do not know the Three Kingdoms, Japan, South Koreans are also cherished by the Three Kingdoms, so the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the most suitable for our history, and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not satisfactory, I think it is only worthy of a reference.