Recently there is a rise in Romance of Three Kingdoms (三国演义） searches. I reckon the reason being the Three Kingdom movie screened in cinema.
As for me, I’m a Three Kingdom fan from the age of 14. When I first started to learn about Three Kingdoms is through PC game. That got me interested in the history, which got me reading about the history.
Initially, I was interested in the Generals (武将). I was fascinated with strength, power and ranking of the Generals. Then I got interested in the story and chain of events in the history. Now I am so interested in the analyzing of individual characters and the lessons behind Three Kingdoms.
But I discover the one I have, Romance of Three Kingdoms (三国演义) is a novel being dramatize. 70% of the content is not true. To get to the real history, one got to read San Guo Zhi (三国志). San Guo Zhi uses ancient chinese which makes it extremely hard to understand.
Fortunately, due to globalization, lots of videos and DVDs from China got imported here. I found 2 sets of videos analyzing the history of Three Kingdoms.
I got lots of new insights to human behaviour, human psychology, strategy issues, political issues from those videos. I will get post some of my learnings soon. Watch out for it.
