Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a rare exception to Chinese fiction. The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" should not be regarded as a novel, and it is more appropriate to regard the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as the discourse power of the historians of the three countries of Wei Shu and Wu.
Isn't it strange why the story of the Three Kingdoms period can be written into the great novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and why other war novels will not become famous? Although the book is called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the relationship between the story and the three countries is very small, and the main content occurs before the establishment of the three countries. When the first state of Wei was established, most of the books of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms were written, and when the three states of Wei Shu and Wu were established, the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was about to end. For example, why Cao Cao is the only character with mixed good and bad character traits, and other characters are either good people or bad people.
Let's take a test first, can you say two famous works on the theme of Chinese war? I think most people can only say one "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". If someone says that "Sui and Tang Dynasty" is a famous work, I am afraid that a large number of people will jump out to oppose it.
War and love are the eternal themes of the story, and it is not surprising that the novel with the theme of war has become a masterpiece. But don't you think it's strange if you think about it carefully? Why "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is unique among all war-themed novels in China, novels depicting other wars are far less well-known than "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Although there are not many famous works on the theme of war in China, the outbreak of wars in ancient China is extremely frequent. The first sentence of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" reads: "When it comes to the general trend of the world, it will be united for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time." At the end of the week, the Seven Kingdoms were divided and merged into Qin. After the fall of Qin, Chu and Han were divided and merged into Han. The Han Dynasty revolted from Gaozu's beheading of the White Snake and unified the world, and later Guangwu Zhongxing spread to Emperor Xian, and was divided into three kingdoms. These few dozen words recount many large-scale wars such as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States, the end of Qin, and Liu Xiu's establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms fought a fierce war for three hundred years. So why didn't the wars before the Three Kingdoms and the wars after the Three Kingdoms give birth to novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
Many people believe that the wars of the Three Kingdoms period were relatively fierce, and there were many heroes and heroes, and there were many clever civilians and brave warriors. It provides a lot of material for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", so "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is good. In fact, there is really no basis for this, let alone the war after the Three Kingdoms. It was the war during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the strategy of the Civilian Ministers and the bravery of the military generals were not inferior at all to the Three Kingdoms Period. The reason why the civilian warlords in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are so outstanding is not how outstanding they are, but more because everyone is familiar with them, and most of the legends of the wenchen warriors in the Three Kingdoms period are just made up stories.
First of all, we must clarify a very important question, that is, who wrote the story of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? The author of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is Luo Guanzhong, but the main creator of the legend is not Luo Guanzhong, but the historian of various countries.
The writing of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is very different from other famous works, and the vast majority of the contents are not compiled by Luo Guanzhong, but have historical basis and a large proportion. According to Zhang Xuecheng, a famous scholar and historian of the Qing Dynasty, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is characterized by "seven realities and three falsehoods". A large proportion of the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was created by the novelist Luo Guanzhong in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties based on Chen Shou's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Pei Songzhi's annotations, as well as folk tales and legends of the Three Kingdoms.
Ancient Chinese history books have only one function, that is, to rub grease and powder for kings. Don't talk about official history, even private history is just another angle to rub the king's grease and powder. Don't think that private history can be written straight, and don't think that a widely praised historian can be blunt. Otherwise, how to explain Sima Qian's record of a sexual encounter between Liu Bang's mother and the dragon? Have you forgotten how Sima Qian's egg did not exist, he only defended those who should not be defended, and the result is that from then on the egg is a passerby. He hadn't learned what to say and how to say at the expense of eggs, so there must be something wrong with Tai Shi Gong's intelligence.
Generally speaking, the essence of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a collection of legendary stories made up by the historians of the Three Kingdoms in the context of Sima Shi. Looking at the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from this perspective, all doubts will disappear, and everything in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is reasonable and everything is strictly seamless.
In order to enhance the rationality and legitimacy of the three states of Wei, Shu, and Wu, the historians of these three countries made up a lot of halos that glorified their own regimes, and made up many passages that, although written in the history books, could be seen at a glance as false. If you can't build a regime, or if the regime can't survive for a long time, and there is no historian to wipe yourself, then I'm sorry, you're either a passerby or a clown.
It is precisely because a large number of events recorded in history books have been adopted by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that the great novel of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been created. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can become a famous work because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is based on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" artistic processing and creation. An amateur writer has limited experience and energy, it is easy to write a story with logical errors, and characters, events, and time are easy to match each other, but historians are much more cautious in writing content, at least to ensure that time and events can echo each other. There is still a big difference between a person and a writing team. And the attitude is also different, the most that is wrong in writing a novel is that no one reads the novel, but the historian writes wrong, that is a matter of losing his head, and the historian cannot eat and walk.
The most representative is the "Eighteenth Road Princes To Discuss Dong Zhuo", in this failed military operation, Cao Cao was not even the second male number, Sun Ce was a very weak prince at that time, at most a supporting role stronger than passers-by, and Liu Guanzhang was not even a prince of the first road at that time, belonging to the mass actors without a line. But in the process of currying favor with Dong Zhuo, it is precisely these supporting characters and passers-by who shine. Only the ancestors of the three forces of Wei Shu and Wu showed great bravery. The other princes were either stupid enough to be incomprehensible or dragon suit actors who didn't even have a line. If the regime established by Yuan Shu could also last for decades, then Yuan Shu would naturally rise up, rather than appearing as a clown. You Yuan Shu have no right to speak, you should be a clown.
Would anyone record such a concert? Do not record the performance of the conductor, do not record the performance of the violinist, record the ugliness of the conductor, and record the wonderful performance of the curtain puller and the announcer at a large length? But "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will be.
Many of the contents of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are not created by Luo Guanzhong, an amateur player, but by professional history book writers, professional is the king's way, on writing heroic legends, they are professional. The story they wrote is much better than Luo Guanzhong, an amateur player! This is an advantage that other novels do not have. Other novels are stories made up by an author, but the real writers of Romance of the Three Kingdoms are a group of historians who write legendary stories professionally.
The special historical period from the Three Kingdoms to the Two Jin Dynasties made this great novel, making the Romance of the Three Kingdoms the only war-themed masterpiece. No other war has the right time relationship as the history of the Three Kingdoms.
The establishment time of the three regimes of Wei Shu and Wu can be said to be not long or short, just right. State of Wei: Founded in 220 and destroyed by the Cao Wei regime in 265. Shu Kingdom: Founded in 221 and destroyed in 263. State of Wu: Founded in 229, Eastern Wu fell in 280. The three kingdoms of Wei Shu and Wu were established at about the same time, the time of destruction was also similar, and the time of existence was almost forty or fifty years.
The three regimes coexisted side by side and lasted for forty or fifty years. The historians of the three countries had enough time to wipe the king's grease and powder, and wrote many heroic legends, resulting in the most splendid collection of heroic legends in Chinese history.
Three regimes coexist, so that the legendary stories written by historians can echo each other, each has its own advantages, if there is only one regime, everyone must see a one-sided legend. One-sided legends are not interesting, the story will not have ups and downs, it will only be one victory going to another victory, one great meets another great. This kind of legendary story will certainly not become a classic, but can only be regarded as a kind of cool text.
Forty or fifty years is not short enough, because too short a regime has no time to make up the great deeds and legends of kings. Five generations and ten countries so many regimes, why is there almost no good person. The real reasons for not having good people are not important, what is important is that they have established a regime for too short a time, and the historians have not had time to write great achievements before they can be overthrown. All their evaluations are written by future generations. Their regimes have been overthrown, where are the good people? If not, how can the devil be overthrown, and if not why should the devil's descendants be overthrown? So the kings of that time must have been either devils or great devils!
The Western Jin Dynasty was only twenty years from the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and this event was too short to compile a logical set of history from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty as a whole. Let a large number of legendary stories written by the historians of the Three Kingdoms spread. If the Western Jin Dynasty could survive peacefully for hundreds of years, the history of the Three Kingdoms that we see now would certainly not be what it is now. It must be a history of a set of tightly sewn and unassailable Western Jin values.
The historians of the Jin Dynasty were highly political in revising the history books of the State of Wei. The portrayal of Cao Cao cannot be too bad, otherwise it cannot explain the fact that the predecessors of the Sima family are Cao Cao's younger brothers, of course, it cannot be too good, otherwise this is not a punch in the face of the Sima family? Therefore, it has created a character image of Cao Cao, who is good or bad, and has an extremely rich personality. This is the only special case among the characters of the Three Kingdoms, and the other characters are all good and bad. Because other characters have little to do with the Sima family, other characters are either good people or bad people.
There were many intersections and conflicts of interest between the Sima family and the late characters of the three regimes of Wei Shu and Wu, but Sima and the early characters of the three countries did not have much of a grudge, so the wonderful story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms focused on the three kingdoms before the establishment of the Three Kingdoms. After the Sima family took the stage, the history of the Three Kingdoms was more sensitive, so the wonderful legendary stories in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms should have been modified on a certain scale, there were no more wonderful stories, the stories of the Three Kingdoms history books were not wonderful, and the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" also ended hastily. The Three Kingdoms of Wei Shu and Wu were really established, and the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was about to end.
I have read the "Four Masterpieces" and I have read the four masterpieces, but I think that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are suitable for young people to read. Other masterpieces are either not suitable for teenagers to read, or teenagers cannot read them.
Before the age of twenty, who said that they could read "Journey to the West" and "Water Margin" I think it is nonsense, because it is unlikely to read "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West" without certain life experience. Although reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms may not be very thorough, it is not a problem to be able to read the general meaning.
The biggest advantage of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" for teenagers is that it is more easy to understand, more interesting, and more readable. An important reason why many famous works teenagers don't like is that the readability is too poor, but "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are not, which can make teenagers read with relish. When I was a teenager, I really enjoyed reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms records many wisdoms and philosophies of life that young people can understand. Many famous books have a lot of philosophy and wisdom in life. However, the understanding of the world and society in adolescence is limited, and the philosophy and wisdom of life in "Water Margin" and "Journey to the West" are a bit esoteric and difficult for teenagers to understand. But the wisdom and philosophy of life in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Romance of the Three Kingdoms are digestible and understandable for teenagers. This has a certain enlightening effect on teenagers. For example, the inspirational struggle of the characters of the Three Kingdoms has a certain role in promoting the progress of young people. I remember The words of Tai Shi Ci: "The eldest husband was born in a chaotic world, and when he took a three-foot sword to establish an immortal merit; now that his ambition has failed, why should he die!" "Reading other famous books, it is difficult to feel this way.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can help many teenagers understand a part of history and make them like history. Because the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has a large number of historical contents, so that young people can understand the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and romance of the Three Kingdoms can help young people improve their ancient Chinese skills. After all, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are ancient novels, and although they are popular novels, they are also written in ancient languages. Reading the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is of great help to improve the ancient Chinese ability of young people.
Finally, the Ming people do not say secret words, you have read it, you can not like, do not pay attention, but trouble point a recommendation.
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