Three Kingdoms

Author: Luo Guanzhong (1330 - 1400). There are 734,321 Chinese characters altogether.

Three Kingdoms is China’s first magnificent historical novel. It widely spread, the influence is deepest, achievement is highest. This masterpiece makes the great and indelible contribution to the literature history of China. Meanwhile, add the magnificent splendor to the literature history of the world too. Novelist Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty merged material of history and popular legend and wrote a great historical novel Three Kingdoms. This strange book recorded the momentous historical incident of one century (184 - 280), the conception is grand, the scene is broad, the figure is distinct, artistic levels is high, is unparalleled in the world classical novels.

The novel describe complicated military and politics struggle among three kingdoms (Wei, Shu and Wu kingdom) in the historical period of three kingdoms of China. The figure’s image is portrayed deeply, intricate in details, the structure is magnificence. Through the soul-stirring military and political struggle, lifesome portray the remarkable personage image of politics and military. Zhu Ge Liang is an extremely important personage in Three Kingdoms. He is a intelligent incarnation. He has gathered a lot of politicians’ virtue and exceptional intelligence. He is widely known in China. Zhu Ge Liang is a personage who each Chinese like.

The main artistic achievement of Three Kingdoms are war describing and characterization. This novel specializes the war describing and can write out the characteristic of each war. Describe several hundred of big and small wars in this book and each war is different. Three Kingdoms has also described different feudal ruling class, in order to reach an private interests, deceive each other, use the intrigue, widely use the political trickery of strategy, have carried on fierce and complicated politics and military struggle.

Three Kingdoms is a works that the achievement is highest and most influential in China ancient historical novel. It spreads extensively and glamour is infinite. There is deep influence to Chinese people’s life. Nearly each Chinese has known this phase of history or read this masterpiece, it is really very excellent.