What kind of novel is The Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first novel, the first historical novel and the first literati novel in the history of China literature.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be roughly divided into five parts: the Yellow Scarf Uprising, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, competing with others, the struggle among the three countries, and the return of the three countries to Jin. Focusing on the war, it describes the historical situation of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, and tells the story of the scuffle between the heroes and the political and military struggles of Wei, Shu and Wu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the end, Sima Yan unified the Three Kingdoms and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, and summarizes the historical changes of this era, shaping a number of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms is written in simple classical Chinese, which is vivid and fluent, appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Brush strokes are full of changes, contrasts, redundancies, twists and turns. With a magnificent structure, the events and many characters with complicated clues for about a hundred years are completely and closely organized, and the narrative is orderly, echoing back and forth, interrelated, interlocking and advancing layer by layer.

Luo Guanzhong integrated culture from two different levels of elegance and vulgarity, and distorted it according to his own subjective understanding, values and artistic likes and dislikes, thus making his works rich in cultural connotations. In The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, there are not only the refraction of the ideology of the upper ruling class, but also profound folk thoughts. It is a visualized history of the rise and fall of the Three Kingdoms, and also a political and military history in the eyes of ordinary people.

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