The main content: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 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, mainly describing the war, telling the story of the warlord melee in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and military struggle between Wei, Shu and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

Creation background: The materials of The Romance of Three Kingdoms mainly come from two ways: one is the historical documents about the history of Three Kingdoms; The second is the story of the Three Kingdoms and folk creation that are constantly circulating among the people. On the one hand, it is the historian's narration and evaluation of the history of the Three Kingdoms accumulated and deepened for thousands of years, on the other hand, it is the continuous evolution and enrichment of folk legends of the Three Kingdoms, which provides rich materials for the creation of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Artistic features: Luo Guanzhong combines culture from two different levels of elegance and vulgarity, and distorts 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 a political and military history in the eyes of the people.

Structural art: The story of the Three Kingdoms takes the rise and fall of Wei, Shu and Wu as the vertical line, and takes the development of war and the activities of characters as the material. The rise and fall history of more than 90 years can be divided into three main stages: the first stage is from the Yellow Scarf Uprising to Battle of Red Cliffs; The third stage is from the Three Kingdoms to Zhuge Liang's death. In the meantime, with the complicated disputes between Wei Shuwu, various wars, large and small, and ingenious schemes of civil servants and military commanders, they were brought out one by one, and finally formed a complete big story. Because the structural wheels of traditional Zhang Hui's novels echo each other and develop along the main line, they are concentrated in dispersion and consistency from beginning to end, forming a unified novel system.