为什么中国的三国时期这么重要？为什么比其他内战时期受到更多关注？ [美国媒体]

Why is the Three Kingdoms period in China so important and elaborated on? Why does it get more attention than other periods of civil war?

为什么中国的三国时期这么重要？为什么比其他内战时期受到更多关注？



Feng Xian, former Research Associate atEurasian Center (2017-2018)
Answered Dec 28
1; it was early but not that early. If youread the history about the warring state or spring- autumn period, you wouldhave no idea of most of generals and politicians and battles because theexisting records lack of details. But the three kingdoms one provided a very indetail description of most of influential characters and events.

1、它属于早期，但不是那么早。如果你阅读战国或者春秋时期的历史，你都对大部分的政治家和将军以及战役不了解，因为现存的记录不是很详细。但是对三国时期的历史记录就很详细了，尤其是那些最重要的人物和事件。



3: the names in the Three Kingdoms wereeasy to be remembered. Due to the name reform earlier, most of characters inthree kingdoms had no more than two characters: one character for family nameanother for last name. There are only few exceptions like Zhuge that had twocharacters for the family name. This made the names easy to be remembered.

3、三国的人名很好记。由于更早之前的名字改革，三国里的大部分人名不超过两个字，姓一个字，名一个字。只有一些例外，比如诸葛，姓是两个字。所以名字很好记。

But if you look at the Notthern-Southerndynasties period, it had a lot of barbarians involved so the names were likefour characters. In the late Tang Dynasty and five generations and ten kingdomperiods, the Han also had at least three characters in their names(one forfamily name and two for last name). This made it difficult to even remember thenames and thus public lacks of interest to know more about them.

但是你看看南北朝时期，有很多蛮人加入，所以名字有四个字。在晚唐和五代十国时期，汉人的名字里至少有三个字（姓一个字，名两个字）。所以名字不好记，因此公众就没有了想要进一步了解他们的兴趣了。

4: political and cultural reasons alsoplayed a big part here. The Shu faction was considered the good one here by theEastern Jin dynasty, though the Jin dunasty was developed from the Wei Dynasty,later on because its action of Northern campaign represented the objective forunification. This attitude was inherited by many dynasties later on.

4、政治和文化原因也扮演了重要作用。东晋认为蜀国是好的，虽然晋朝是从魏朝发展而来的，后来因为其北伐运动代表了统一的目标。这种态度被后来的很多朝代继承。



Xane Feng, I am Chinese
Answered Dec 28
There are four Great Classical Novels inChinese literature:
Journey to the West
Water Margin
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Dream of the Red Chamber
Literally everyone in China knows aboutthose four novels.
Most people do not know the real history ofthe Three Kingdoms, they just know the stories from the Romance. They think ZhuGeliang was some kind of military genius, or that Zhang Fei routed a millionsoldiers with a single roar.
An interesting fact: the Manchus of Qingused a strategy from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to make the Ming Emperorkill his own best general. What’s more, that strategy came from a completelyfictional story from the novel!
A made-up story determined 300 years ofChinese history!

中国文学里有四本经典小说：
西游记，水浒传，三国演义，红楼梦。基本上每个中国人都知道这四部小说的存在。但是大部分人不知道三国的真实历史，他们只知道三国演义里的故事。他们认为诸葛亮是某个军事天才，或者认为张飞一人可以单挑百万大军。
一个有趣的事实是：满人用三国演义里的一个策略让明朝皇帝杀死了自己最好的将军。此外，这个策略来自于这本小说里面的一个完全虚构的故事！
一个虚构的故事就决定了300年的中国历史！