At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the 3rd century A.D., there were contradictions and struggles among the three political and military groups headed by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan in Wei Shuwu. They died because of the incompetence of the late masters of various countries. The queen of Shu was captured alive by Zhong and Deng He in Chengdu, and the queen of Wu surrendered for fear of war. Cao Huan, the ruler of the late Wei Dynasty, was forced to move and changed his country name to Jin. Since then, the world has been controlled by Sima Shi. As the saying goes: "The general trend of the world will be combined for a long time, and it will be combined for a long time."

The book can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow turban insurrectionary, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, competing among the heroes, the Three Kingdoms' separation, and the Three Kingdoms' return to Jin. On the vast historical stage, a magnificent war scene was staged. Luo Guanzhong, the author, combines the thirty-six strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War between the lines, including both the plot and the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War.

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Creation background

The final version of The Tale of Three Kingdoms, about 80,000 words, is divided into three volumes, namely, upper, middle and lower volumes, and each volume is divided into two columns. The book tells the story of Sima Zhong's escape from prison. The main story begins with the loyalty of Liu Guan and Zhang Taoyuan and ends with Zhuge Liang's death.

Judging from the content and structure of Pinghua, it is roughly the same size as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but the overall description is sloppy, the words are obscure, the story is bizarre, most of them are inconsistent with the official records, and the names and places are full of fallacies. It seems to be the work of folk artists, not polished by literati. Judging from the above records and surviving works, from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the popular stories of the Three Kingdoms became more and more abundant, which provided sufficient conditions for the creation of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Brief introduction of the author

Luo Guanzhong (about 1330—— about 1400) was a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. The name of this book, in the middle of the word, is Hu Hai III, Han nationality, from Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he devoted himself to literary creation.

Luo Guanzhong's novels include Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, History of Tang and Five Dynasties, and Biography of Three Sui Dynasties. Among them, the well-known Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms) is Luo Guanzhong's masterpiece, which has a far-reaching influence on later literary creation.

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