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A community portal about Culture of China with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The culture of China is the result of 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, and political advancement. Though regional differences... [more]

A community portal about Culture of China with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The culture of China is the result of 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, and political advancement. Though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities in language and religion connect a culture distinguished by such contributions as Confucianism and Taoism. Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial China's history, and traditional Chinese culture is heavily influenced by it.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms ( 三国演义 ) - Classical Chinese Novel


Battle of Red Cliff - Romance of the Three Kingdoms
A 1000 year old engraving marked the site
of the Battle of Red Cliff in today's Hubei, China.

Written by Luo Guanzhong ( 贯中) in the late Yuan and early Ming period (the exact period is not known ), the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, continue to be the most popular classical novels in Chinese Literature all these years.

The period of the Three Kingdoms, from late Eastern Han to the Western Jin Dynasty (169-265 AD) lasted about ninety years, and was an extremely chaotic period in which heroes rose to compete against one another and legends were made.
 
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