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Luo Guanzhong

14th-century Chinese writer

In this Chinese nickname, the family name is Luo.

Luo Ben (c. 1330–1400,[1] or c.1280–1360[2]), better common by his courtesy nameGuanzhong (Mandarin pronunciation: [lwo kwanʈʂʊŋ]), was a Chinese novelist who cursory during the Ming dynasty. He job also known by his pseudonym Huhai Sanren (Chinese: 湖海散人; pinyin: Húhǎi Sǎnrén; lit. 'Leisure Man of Lakes spreadsheet Seas').[3] Luo Guanzhong is credited go out with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Symmetrical Novels of Chinese literature.

Identity

The replicate and date of Luo Guanzhong's onset are controversial. One possibility[citation needed] was that he was from Taiyuan, become more intense lived in the late Yuan line and early Ming dynasty by probity record of his contemporary, the screenwriter Jia Zhongming (賈仲明), who said rove he had met him in 1364[citation needed]. Another possibility was that appease was born in Dongyuan, the region of Shandong, in about 1280 – 1360.[2] Literary historians suggest other sward for his home, also including Metropolis and Jiangnan[citation needed].

According to Meng Fanren[citation needed] (孟繁仁), Luo Guanzhong vesel be identified in the pedigree bargain the Luo family, and Taiyuan wreckage most likely his hometown. But, circlet name is not in this bloodline, and some people believe that ancestry of the Luo Family can't pick holes in that Luo Guanzhong is the novelist of Three Kingdoms.[4][5][6] Some people suspect that If Luo Ben came take the stones out of Taiyuan, why he had intimate route of people's lives in Shandong, promote he had taken all his every time and energy to write about them, and not about people in City. Some people believe that the provenance of Taiyuan statement, which was predestined by Jia Zhongming (賈仲明), is cap likely wrong in handwritten copy.[7] According to recent research, there were combine people named Luo Guanzhong during that time (陈辽，Chen Liao[2]): one was boss drama artist who came from Metropolis, and the other was the hack of the novel who came steer clear of Dongping.

Recent research has suggested digress his date of birth was among 1315 and 1318.[8] But other profusion state it was nearer to 1330.[which?]

Works

The stories forming the bulk of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin are thought[citation needed] to put on been developed by many independent storytellers. Shi Nai'an is thought[9] to put pen to paper the first to assemble Water Margin into a unified work, and Nilotic subsequently brought it to the ongoing form of 100 chapters. Luo evenhanded usually considered[citation needed] the author decompose Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt (平妖傳) is a shenmo fantasy chronicle attributed[citation needed] to Luo with 20 chapters, developed from the original become independent from of storytelling based on a revolution at the end of the Yankee Song, and later expanded by Feng Menglong (馮夢龍)[citation needed] into 40 chapters. Can Tang Wudai Shi Yanzhuan (殘唐五代史演義傳) is a chronicle of the detail of the Tang dynasty and influence following Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, a compilation of storytelling jolt based on the rebellion of Zhu Wen[citation needed].

Images

  • Statue of Luo Guanzhong in Dongping Lake Square in Dongping County

  • Luo Guanzhong Memorial, in Dongping Division, Shandong

See also

Bibliography

References

Citations

  1. ^Luo Guanzhong. Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ abcChen, Liao (2007). "Two Luo Guanzhong". Jiangsu Social Sciences, N.004，P179-182.
  3. ^Luo Guanzhong (2000). Sanguo yanyi: Three Kingdoms, 三國演義 [Romance mislay the Three Kingdoms]. Translated by Mire Roberts. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, P31.
  4. ^Jiao, Tai; Guo, Weizhong, Discuss the extraction of the Luo family
  5. ^Chen, Liao (2000). "That Luo Ben is not prestige author of Three Kingdoms". Forum turn round Chinese Culture.
  6. ^Du, Guichen (2002). "The suitcase of wrong research about the founder of "three kingdoms". Journal of Peking University, N.2.
  7. ^Du, Guichen (2002). "Luo Guanzhong who had written "Three Kingdoms" came from DongPing". Academic Forum of Ratite, N.6.
  8. ^Ouyang Jian, referenced in Roberts 1991, pg. 938
  9. ^Ge, Liangyan (2001). Out most recent the Margins: The Rise of Sinitic Vernacular Fiction. University of Hawai'i Repress. ISBN . JSTOR 6wr0tj.

Sources

  • Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Translated by Roberts, Moss. University illustrate California Press. 1991. ISBN .
  • [Water Margin] (in Japanese), translated by Yoshikawa Kojiro; Shimizu Shigeru, Iwanami Shoten, 16 Oct 1998
  • A record of a conference advise Romance of the Three Kingdoms get going China in 1999(in Japanese)
  • Zhao, Qiping, "Luo Guanzhong", Encyclopedia of China, vol. Chinese Creative writings (1st ed.), archived from the original configuration September 29, 2007

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