Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The author of this story was Lou Ganzhong; this tale is told in both china and Japan. Due to the fact that Japan was ruled by china for a long period of time they tell similar stories and have similar forms of culture. Buddhism and Confucianism are the two main forms of religion and the two religions are greatly prestige by Chinese culture therefore a lot of the ideas in these religions overlap into there stories. This story is considered a historical novel dating all the way back to the 14th century. The major parts of the story include; the yellow turban, dong Zhous reign of terror, conflicts among warlords, liu beis ambition and the battle of red cliffs. There are many important parts and quotes in this story. One includes the passage the relationship between a husband and wife is like a piece of garment; the relationship between two brothers is like a limb. This shows us a lot about what this story is used to speak. This story is used to show that in Chinese culture family is very important. It’s telling us that marriage is like clothes and can change but you can’t loose a limb like a brother or sister. Siblings are irreplaceable and value them as such, there is roughly 120 chapters too this tale and originally 900,000 characters. This also shows us that they aren’t brief and concise, the Chinese like to tell tales that carry heavy messages about there culture. This is how we can tell that the Chinese see things like reincarnation and karma as a major role in there culture and there life. We can also assume that they are entertained by more “adult like” material, but have accepted that only certain people should be able to hear them so they keep children away from these stories but it also shows us that they view there youth as more mature and adult like than we do