Of course, there is a fashionable name of 10%, which is called "Historical fan fiction".
Hu Shi commented on The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Although the current version (Mao Zonggang Edition) of this book is the last revised version, it can still be regarded as a very powerful lecture on popular history, rather than a book with literary value. ..... Having said that, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is an excellent popular history after all. "
Lu Xun's evaluation of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms is not very high either.
However, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as the first book, had a great influence on later literature and the public.
History becomes the source of creative inspiration. Compared with American science fiction's reverie about the future, China's novels are often criticized for being written late. Why is this happening?
China has a long history and many stories to tell. Readers have a high acceptance of past stories; But I think these two points are not the main reasons. The influence of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms may occupy many factors.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms appeared in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Before that, the development of novels was not systematic, just some legends, fables and notes. It is the first time that a large-scale, systematic and influential work like Romance of the Three Kingdoms has appeared.
So they rushed to read. Although later generations did not deliberately imitate the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they were all influenced by it and could not get rid of it. This pointed out the direction for later novelists.
Rich and full characters Before this, legends, fables and note novels mostly wrote stories with bizarre plots, and writing characters mainly wrote abnormal behaviors of characters.
This is not the case in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This story is not only bizarre, but also full of characters. Guan Yu, Cao Cao, Zhang Fei and even many marginal figures have been vividly displayed.
The novel expresses people, and the story is the medium, which is perfectly interpreted here in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Most of the subsequent novels were influenced by The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In jy and Cheng, we can always find some shadows of Zhang Fei.
Popular novels go to the masses. Most of the novels before The Romance of the Three Kingdoms were not written for ordinary people. Legends and fables are for literati, because there are too many written words, which are difficult for ordinary people to understand.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms itself is a "vulgar" novel, which is written in popular things, the language is also popular, and the audience is even more ordinary people.
From then on, popular novels began to be accepted by the public, and the spread of culture began to increase geometrically.
It is precisely because of this that the story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be known to all women and children, and Xian Yi, Young and Old, will become a book that affects the overall character of China people.
His value and influence are still many, so I won't list them here.