What is the significance of Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a pictorial interpretation of the basic spirit of traditional Chinese culture, i.e., benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, trust and courage, which are the core elements of the value system of traditional Chinese culture, through the use of characters.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, through the stories of Wei, Shu, and Wu, reveals the law of historical development that "the world's momentum is bound to be divided after a long period of time, and divided after a long period of time is bound to be united". From the beginning to the end of the work, the ideological tendency of "supporting Liu and opposing Cao" runs through the work, reflecting the people's desire to support a bright ruler and aspire to peace, and their hatred of tyrants and opposition to turmoil.

Luo Guanzhong integrated the cultures of the two different levels of elegance and vulgarity, and twisted them according to his own subjective understanding, values, and artistic preferences, thus making the work very rich in cultural connotations. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is both the refraction of the ideology of the upper ruling class and the precipitation of the vast and deep folk thoughts. It is a figurative history of the rise and fall of the Three Kingdoms, as well as a political and military history in the eyes of the people.

Expanded Information:

At the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, social contradictions were acute, peasant uprisings were taking place, and the country was divided into different groups, and after many years of war, Zhu Yuanzhang annihilated the group, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, and established the Ming Dynasty. The people were displaced during this period.

Luo Guanzhong, as a writer of miscellaneous plays and drama, lived at the bottom of society, understood and familiar with the people's plight, expected social stability, the people to live in peace and work in contentment, as the bottom of the intellectual thinking, and hoped to put an end to the tragic situation caused by the turmoil. Thus the history of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty created the historical novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Literary Achievements

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is written in a simple language, which is clear and fluent, elegant and popular; the writing style is rich in variations, with contrasts and contrasts, side by side redundancies, and twists and turns, and is full of color. And with a magnificent structure, about a hundred years of confused, intricate events and many characters are organized in a complete and tight, the narrative is methodical, echoing each other, related to each other, tightly interlocked, layer by layer to advance.

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