What are the main contents and central ideas in the romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Main content:

The novel describes the history of nearly 1 years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, and reflects the contradictory struggle between the three political and military groups of Wei, Shu and Wu, headed by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan.

The book can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow Scarf Uprising, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, Competing among the Heroes, Three Kingdoms' Struggle, and Three Kingdoms' Return to Jin, and magnificent war scenes were staged. Luo Guanzhong, the author, combines the 36 strategies of the art of war between the lines, which has both plots and strategies of the art of war.

Central idea:

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms vividly deduces the basic spirit of China traditional culture, that is, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness and courage, which are the core factors in the value system of China traditional culture.

Liu Bei in the novel is the representative of benevolence, Guan Yu is the representative of righteousness, Zhang Fei is the representative of courage, Zhuge Liang is the representative of wisdom, Zhao Yun is the representative of loyalty and so on. Liu Bei is the central figure in the novel and the embodiment of "benevolence" in China's cultural spirit.

When Liu Bei was introduced for the first time in the novel, he said: This man was "born seven feet and five inches long, with his ears hanging over his shoulders and his hands knee-high. His eyes can care for himself, his face is like a crown jade, and his lips are like vermilion". Later, Liu Bei's overall image was formed by "stepping off the horse with yellow mane and holding two swords in his hand": the work not only depicts Liu Bei's ambitious, respectful and shrewd personality characteristics through a large number of specific stories and character evaluations.

The most important thing is to exaggerate the characteristics of Liu Bei's generosity and benevolence: the author of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms portrayed Liu Bei as a typical example of benevolence, which is the base of Liu Bei's character, and Liu Bei's character is the embodiment and personification of benevolence in China's traditional culture.

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background of creation

process of writing a book

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Luo Guanzhong wrote The Romance of the Three Kingdoms on the basis of Chen Shou's The History of the Three Kingdoms and Pei Songzhi's notes. The earliest existing edition was published in the first year of Jiajing (1522), and it was called Jiajing edition, with the title "Biography of Hou Chenshou in Pingyang, Shanxi Province, and later learned from Robben Guanzhong".

After Jiajing edition, a large number of new periodicals appeared, all of which were mainly Jiajing edition, and only some work was done, such as illustrations, textual research, comments, addition and deletion of words, number of volumes and sorting out the purpose. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Mao Lun and Mao Zonggang and his son made some revisions to Jiajing's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, mainly sorting out the contents and revising the wording. Change poetry, etc., the content has not changed much.

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