The Romance of Three Kingdoms

The China series "The New Romance of Three Kingdoms, 新三国演义" is finally out. Recently watching the series.

My hobbies and interests all lie in wars, weapons and tactics when I study in secondary school. I spent almost all my time in studying and doing research about these stuffs. Troy, Alexander the Great, China wars history, mongolia history like Genghis Khan's biblio, my favourite Japanese War Period (Sengoku Period), World War I and World War II. I just love it pretty much. Especially when the 'three kingdoms' and 'japanese sengoku period' has been made into game. E.g. Dynasty Warriors series and Samurai Warriors series.

Talking about the three kingdoms era, it started frm A.D. 184 until A.D. 264.

As you can see from this map, the three kingdoms included Wei Forces 魏, Shu Forces 蜀 and Wu Forces 吴. I think most of my friends already knew about this. Because it is one of the most popular story among the China history. It is also a hot topic among China forum baidu.

Perhap I will give a brief introduction to the three main character in Shu Forces with my own opinions.

The founder of Shu Forces is Liu Bei 刘备. It is the weakest and the smallest forces among the three kingdoms. However, the forces got the finest warriors and the war tactic genius Zhuge Liang 诸葛亮. In fact, he is not only a genius in war tactics. He in genius in everythings, including politics managing, debating and also creating new weapons. Wow! Everyone should know that right?

Now I am going to talk about Liu Bei and two of his sworn brothers, Guan Yu 关羽 and Zhang Fei 张飞. In san guo, everything is about virtue, honour, righteousness and justice. Do you all believe in things like that? Liu, Guan and Zhang made an oath in a peach garden. "Although we born on the different days, but we hope to die on the same day". Then, the three brother pursue their ambition together, and always loyal to each other.

Guan Yu

He is the warrior that people keep worshipped about even until today. His appearance:

Once he has been gave a new cloth as a gift from another land lord Cao Cao 曹操, anyway he is wearing the old cloth that he already had with the new cloth cover inside. Cao Cao asking why. He answered that the old cloth is made by his sworn brother, Liu Bei and with wearing the old cloth outside, it's like he can see his brother everyday although they were apart by that time. Cao Cao was totally speechless and admire Guan Yu's loyalthy to his brother. And the three brother reunited at last. This is just one of the example

Zhang Fei

To make the post shorter I am not uploading photo for him. Straightforward, bad-tempered and honourable often best to describe him. Same with Guan Yu, he is one of the mightest warriors among that time. They two contributed a lot in building the empire of Liu Bei.

Now I am just wandering. How can Liu Bei know such trustworthy friends, sworn brothers to be accurate at the first sight and swearing an oath with them? Haha, is that the sincerity and kindness of Liu Bei made him know such a great friends and helpful partner in life?