Romance of the Three Kingdoms

As what I wrote on the previous post, I like Chinese historical novel. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is one of the most popular historical novels of China. This novel was written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, based on the events in turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, while the rest are "Water Margin", "Journey to the West" and "Dream of the Red Chamber". Among four of the novels, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is arguably the most widely read historical novel in late imperial and modern China.

The novel has 120 chapters, which can divide the story as the titles below:

1. Yellow Turban Rebellion
2. Dong Zhuo's reign of terror
3. Conflict among the various warlords and nobles
4. Sun Ce builds a dynasty in Jiangdong
5. Liu Bei's ambition
6. Battle of Red Cliffs
7. Liu Bei's takeover of Yi Province
8. Death of Guan Yu
9. Battle of Xiaoting
10. Zhuge Liang's campaigns
11. End of the Three Kingdoms

I finished the novel when I was in form 3. I gained a lot of knowledge from the novel, even learnt a good lesson. I admire those heros in the novel, because they were willing to sacrifice their lives for protecting their own countries and kings.