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Is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms different from the real history of the Three Kingdoms?
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first historical romance novel, which mainly describes the war and reflects the political and military struggle among the political groups of Shu, Wei and Wu Sanda. It can be roughly divided into five parts: the Yellow Scarf Uprising, the Dong Zhuo Uprising, the competing among the heroes, the tripartite confrontation among the three countries, and the return of the three countries to Jin. On a broad background, a series of ups and downs and magnificent war scenes were staged, and nearly 200 characters were successfully portrayed, among which Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others were household names, and they did not treat the historical descriptions of all parties in the way of enemy-enemy narration, which had a far-reaching impact on future generations. Editor Luo Guanzhong combined thirty-six strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War between the lines, including both the plot and the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms embodies rich historical contents, and the names, places and major events are basically the same as those in the History of the Three Kingdoms. The characters are also based on the fixed image left by the Three Kingdoms, and then play again, exaggerating, beautifying, uglifying and so on. This is also the routine of historical romance novels. Historical romance novels are mostly mixed with reality, emphasizing reality and nothingness; Give consideration to both ancient and modern times, criticize the ancient and evaluate the present; A story tells the feelings of two dynasties, one character, both dynasties. On the one hand, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms reflects the real history of the Three Kingdoms and caters to the readers' needs to know the real history. On the other hand, according to the actual situation of Ming society, the figures of the Three Kingdoms were exaggerated, beautified and vilified to a certain extent, which inspired readers and took care of the needs of readers who wanted to increase their knowledge and rulers who wanted to consolidate their rule. It not only reflects the true face of the history of the Three Kingdoms, but also reflects many social contents of the Ming Dynasty.