From a very young age, I was intrigue by the story of Romance of Three Kingdom. I first got to know this story from the computer game. That was the first time I got to know some of the characters in the story, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei etc.

This story is about China being divided into 3 huge forces during the A.D 189 - 240. During this time, many outstanding individuals who excel in war and politics appeared. It was one of the exciting and dramatic period of China.

Since then, I was hooked to this story. Started to went around looking for more information about the Three Kingdom. I got the comics initially. There are 2 types of comic that is about the Three Kingdom. But I’m not satisfied, because in the comic, lot of details are removed. Finally, I found the actual novel Romance of Three Kingdom, 三国演义。

I thought I’ll be satisfy after with the finding. Unfortunately, after reading the novel, I found out that this is only a novel, a story. Not everything written in the novel is true. The author simply added some colours so that readers will be interested to read on. So I begin to search for the actual records of Three Kingdom, 三国志。

The actual records are recorded in ancient chinese which I couldn’t understand.

I am always curious about some characters in the Three Kingdom. Like Zhuge Liang, is he really that intelligent?

Also Generals like Zhang Fei or Lu Bu seems to be quite stupid in the game or the novel. But these people are generals leading soldiers to war. How could they be stupid? The lives of the soldiers depend on them, how can they not be intelligent?

Fortunately I found a clip in youtube that analysed the history of Three Kingdom. It was a gem that I found, as there are many lessons to be learned. I would share some of the learnings in the next few posts.