What kind of novel is The Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first novel, the first historical novel and the first literati novel in the history of China literature.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow Scarf Uprising, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, competing among the heroes, the Three Kingdoms' separation, and the Three Kingdoms' return to Jin. It describes the historical situation of nearly a hundred years from the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty. Focusing on the war, it tells the story of the scuffle between the heroes in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the political and military struggle in Wei Shuwu.

In the end, Sima Yan unified the Three Kingdoms and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

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Romance of the Three Kingdoms is written in simple classical Chinese, which is vivid and fluent, appealing to both refined and popular tastes. Brush strokes are full of changes, contrasts, redundancies, twists and turns, and swaying. The structure is magnificent, and the events of about a hundred years and many characters with complicated clues are organized completely and closely, and the narrative is orderly, echoing, interrelated, interlocking and advancing layer by layer.

Luo Guanzhong integrated culture from two different levels of elegance and vulgarity, and distorted it according to his own subjective understanding, values and artistic likes and dislikes, thus making his works rich in cultural connotations. In The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, there are not only the refraction of the ideology of the upper ruling class, but also profound folk thoughts. It is a visualized history of the rise and fall of the Three Kingdoms and a political and military history in the eyes of the people.

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