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  • The culture of Names and Courtesy Names in Three Kingdoms

    August 25, 2025

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    Juan

    In ancient China, a person’s name typically consisted of three parts: family name, given name, and courtesy name (or style name). Some individuals also had “clan name” or “pseudonym” (usually self-given titles). This article will briefly introduce the composition and characteristics of ancient Chinese names, using examples from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

  • The Oath of the Peach Garden: The power and peril of sworn brotherhood [Three Kingdoms]

    August 24, 2025

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    Juan

    The sworn brotherhood of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, famously known as the Oath of the Peach Garden, is one of the most iconic scenes in the opening chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

  • The Recruitment Notice: A Fateful Encounter [Three Kingdoms]

    August 24, 2025

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    Juan

    In the first chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the peasant rebel army advances toward Youzhou. The governor of Youzhou, Liu Yan, fearing that his forces are outnumbered, issues a notice recruiting volunteers for a righteous militia.

  • Yellow Scarves Uprising[Three Kingdoms]

    August 24, 2025

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    Juan

    The Yellow Scarves Uprising (184–185 AD) serves as the logical starting point and historical backdrop for the narrative of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The specific event that shattered the “ordered world” of the late Eastern Han Dynasty and plunged it into “chaos” was the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

  • Two Serpents: One White, One Green[Three Kingdoms]

    August 24, 2025

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    Juan

    The first chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms skillfully juxtaposes two stories about “emperors and serpents”: one is the legend of the founding emperor, Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, slaying a white serpent to rise in rebellion, and the other is the omen of the last emperor, Emperor Ling of Han, fainting…

  • The Cycle of Division and Unification [Three Kingdoms]

    August 24, 2025

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    Juan

    The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been.

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