What are the linguistic characteristics of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

Tightly linked and advanced layer by layer.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" mainly tells the story: at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the heroes were striking, and the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu were stubborn one after another, becoming a full momentum, until they were finally destroyed by the Western Jin Dynasty.

The book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has created a large number of vivid and vibrant characters, and Luo Guanzhong has also gained an important position in the history of Chinese literature. Among the nearly 200 characters portrayed, the most successful ones are Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Liu Bei, Zhao Yun and others.

The book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" describes large and small wars, with grand ideas and diverse techniques, which gives us a lot of understanding of ancient culture. Among them, the descriptions of wars such as the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi are ups and downs, ups and downs, and they are thrilling, heart-wrenching, and touching to read.

Literary characteristics: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" adopts shallow and close literary language, which is bright and fluent, and is appreciated by both elegance and vulgarity; The brushwork is full of variety, contrast, side-redundant, twists and turns, swaying and colorful.

In addition, with a magnificent structure, the complicated and intricate events and numerous characters of the past hundred years or so are organized completely and rigorously, and the narrative is orderly, echoing back and forth, related to each other, closely linked, and advancing layer by layer.

Although "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" retains many fictional stories and pays attention to the vividness and interest of the story to a certain extent, it also draws as close to history as possible, and when dealing with the inevitable contradictions and conflicts between the two aspects, it basically abides by the principle of giving priority to historical facts.

The features of Romance of the Three Kingdoms are multifaceted.

One. It has succeeded in creating numerous characters. There are more than 400 people in the whole book, and the main characters are artistic models with distinct personalities and vivid images. All kinds of characters have their own commonalities, and similar characters have their own personalities.

The author describes the characters, is good at grasping the basic characteristics, highlighting a certain aspect, exaggerating, and using contrasts and foils to make the characters' personalities distinct and vivid. This is a basic principle of the author's characterization.

**The best explanation of the application of this principle is the so-called "three absolutes" that have always been people, that is, Cao Cao's "treacherous" - the treacherous Guan Yu's "righteousness" - righteousness is as heavy as a mountain, and Kong Ming's "wisdom" - witty.

**The main way to portray characters is to place them in thrilling military and political struggles, and to shape them in sharp and complex contradictions. For the main characters, their complex personalities are often expressed through a series of storylines and character language.

Two. It is longer than describing war. The book has written more than 40 large and small wars, showing thrilling war scenes. Among them, the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, and the Battle of Yiling are the most outstanding.

For several key battles that determined the rise and fall of the Three Kingdoms, the author always focused on describing, and centered on the characters, writing about all aspects of the war, such as the strategy and tactics of the two sides, the balance of forces, the transformation of status, etc., written in a colorful, ever-changing, and distinctive way, fully reflecting the complexity and diversity of the war.

It not only writes the fierceness, tension, and thrilling of the war, but also does not seem miserable, generally has a high-spirited style, and some also show it calmly, with stillness in movement, tension and relaxation.

Three. Its structure is both magnificent and exquisite. The time is as long as 100 years, there are hundreds of characters, the events are intricate, and the clues are complicated.

And the description should not only conform to the basic facts, but also pay attention to the coherence of the artistic plot. Therefore, there are great difficulties in the arrangement of the structure. However, the author can write in an orderly manner, with a clear context, and each chapter can be written independently, and the whole book is a complete artistic whole.

This is mainly due to the grandeur and rigor of the author's conception. He takes Shu Han as the center and the contradictions and struggles of the Three Kingdoms as the main line to organize the storyline of the whole book.

Four. The language is concise and fluent, and it is as clear as words. Today, this language seems to be half-literate, but when it comes to the proclamation, it is close to the vernacular, and it is a pioneering feat to write long texts in this language, and it is a significant improvement compared with some **rough and miscellaneous languages in the past.

<> The content of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is characterized by the use of shallow and close classical Chinese, which is bright and fluent, and is appreciated by both elegance and vulgarity; The brushwork is full of variety, contrast, redundant sideways, and twists and turns. In addition, with a magnificent structure, the complicated and intricate events and numerous characters of the past hundred years or so are organized in a complete and rigorous manner, and the narration is orderly, echoing back and forth, related to each other, closely linked to the spine, and advancing layer by layer. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is China's first long chapter Hui Ti Romance**, and the main content can be divided into five parts:

Huang Sen's scarf uprising, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the heroes competing for the deer, the Three Kingdoms, and the return of the Three Kingdoms; The main characters of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are: Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Liu Bei, Zhou Yu, Sun Quan, Zhao Yun, etc.