The book can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow turban insurrectionary, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, competing among the heroes, the Three Kingdoms' separation, and the Three Kingdoms' return to Jin. On the vast historical stage, a magnificent war scene was staged. Luo Guanzhong, the author, combines the 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.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel. Its full name is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. There are several versions of the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, such as Jiajing Renwu Edition. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang had rearranged the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, revised the wording and changed the poems.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first novel, the first historical novel and the first literati novel in the history of China literature.
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Time background
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, social contradictions were sharp, and peasant uprisings broke out one after another. After years of war, Zhu Yuanzhang wiped out heroes, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty. During the period of people's displacement, Luo Guanzhong, as a writer of zaju and storytelling, lived at the bottom of society, understood and was familiar with people's sufferings, expected social stability and people's living and working in peace and contentment, and thought as a bottom-level intellectual, hoping to end the tragic situation caused by unrest. Thus came the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was based on the history of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
1. The opening word of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is ("The Yangtze River rolls eastward, and the waves wash away heroes. Whether it is right and wrong or failure, it is empty now and has disappeared with the passage of time. Castle Peak still exists, the sun still rises and the sunset still sets. )
2. "Righteousness" is the ideological essence and soul of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Among the main characters in The Romance of Three Kingdoms, three unique characters are Cao Cao, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu.
4. There is a hero in Romance of the Three Kingdoms who once killed Hua Xiong with warm wine, rode Ma Qianli alone, and scraped bones to cure poison. He was admired by later generations and was honored as the "warrior sage" of China. This hero is Guan Yu.
5. Please combine the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. An example of a famous battle jointly commanded by Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu is Battle of Red Cliffs; Besides, Zhuge Liang wanted to behead Ma Su in tears because the street pavilion fell.
6. There are two paragraphs in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "If a horse is like a unicorn, West Western jackdaw is like a husband and wife." "Zhou wins Lv Wang and Han wins Sean, which is no different." Xu Shu said this, and Zhuge Liang was praised.
7. Who is the character described below? Summarize his main personality characteristics in two or three words.
Black silk scarf feather fan, dressed in crane suit, plain soap sash, face like a crown jade, red ink on lips, long eyes and eight feet long, is almost a fairy. Character: Zhuge Liang, personality characteristics: resourceful and loyal.
The author is Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.