Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first novel of China in ancient times and a classic of historical romance novels. This novel describes the contradictions and struggles between the political and military groups of Wei, Shu and Wu Sanda, headed by Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the 3rd century. On the broad social and historical background, it showed the sharp, complex and distinctive political and military conflicts of that era, which had a far-reaching impact on future generations in political and military strategy. This book has vivid language, grand scenes and distinctive personality, and has shaped many immortal historical figures such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. His outstanding literary achievements have influenced all aspects of China's literature, art and social life.

Before The Romance of Three Kingdoms appeared, China's novels were generally short and pithy, and some even had only a few dozen words. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first novel. We should pay attention to how China's novels developed from short stories to long stories. It turned out that storytelling was popular in the Song Dynasty, and storytelling became a profession. Storytellers like to use stories of ancient characters as themes, and Chen Shou's The History of the Three Kingdoms is the best material for telling stories. Some scattered stories of the Three Kingdoms have also been circulated among the people. In addition, the storyteller takes a long time to draw materials, the content is getting richer and richer, and the characters are getting fuller and fuller. Finally, many independent stories gradually combined and grew into a masterpiece. These isolated stories have been passed down from mouth to mouth in the society for a long time, and finally they were processed into a book, which became China's first novel. This is a great collective creation. It is different from the novel written by a single author in form, which deserves our attention. This novel originated from outstanding talents, followed by The Journey to the West, a ghost story novel, and Water Margin, another historical novel. Romance of the Three Kingdoms has a certain enlightening effect on later novels. The origin of historical literature, the literary value of this masterpiece itself and its influence on later generations are all worthy of our in-depth discussion.

The main content of Water Margin is that the rulers of Song Dynasty were corrupt and cruel, and the captain Gao Qiu was a rogue. Because he could play football, he was appreciated by the emperor, and he rose all the way from now on, doing all kinds of evil. His only son, Gao Yanei, is overbearing. In order to possess the beautiful wife of Lin Chong, the head coach of the imperial army of 800,000 yuan, she destroyed Lin Chong with a knife, entered the White Tiger Hall, a military stronghold, and exiled Lin Chong. He also tried to kill him halfway in the wild pig forest. Fortunately, Hua Shanlu bravely saved him. On Taishi Ci's birthday, the son-in-law searched for hundreds of gold and silver treasures, sent them to Beijing to celebrate, and sent Yang Zhi to escort them. The three brothers, Chao Gai, Wu Yong and Ruan Shi, decided to outwit the birth outline, and then fought fiercely with the court. Finally, everyone went to Liangshan together. Another tiger hero, Song Wu, was sentenced to banishment for Ximen Qing's collusion with his eldest brother, Wu Dalang. In the end, he experienced a series of twists and turns and was forced to rebel. In addition, there are many heroes such as Song Jiang and Lu, *** 108, who were eventually forced to become an outlaw and rise up in revolt for various reasons. They held high the banner of justice, and under the slogan of doing justice for heaven and robbing the rich to help the poor, they killed all parts of the country, dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of reactionary rulers, publicized the heroic fighting spirit of the people, and made a vigorous and great cause.