So I was thinking today about my first encounter with the Three Kingdoms period and was wondering how other people first experience this period. Also I was wondering about what keeps people interested in this period after so many years since their first encounter with this epic time period/story.
For me my first experience was playing a multi player game with my cousin when I was 10 years old on the snes and I think it was Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3 or something like that. I was hooked ever since and my interest of the series grew after watching the Mainland China TV series. You can also find it on youtube now with English subtitles now. It's just an amazing story about war but also on human nature.
I suppose the reason why I'm still so interested with the story is that despite all the warfare that happens in the story it really focuses on the human aspect of things and not do the usual good guy vs bad guy theme. There really is no bad guys, just different sides. Even though Cao Cao was known as a tyrant, a different way of seeing it is that he is trying to unify the land as quickly as possible. While Liu Bei although portray as the hero has many flaws and often did things that indirectly caused the deaths of so many (Changban, Yiling)
And of course there is Zhuge Liang in the novel. Even though the things he did was fictional in the RoTK series, it's just epic and it's real enough to make me wonder if it could have actually happened. Anyways just wondering about other's feelings on the Three Kingdoms period.
For me my first experience was playing a multi player game with my cousin when I was 10 years old on the snes and I think it was Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3 or something like that. I was hooked ever since and my interest of the series grew after watching the Mainland China TV series. You can also find it on youtube now with English subtitles now. It's just an amazing story about war but also on human nature.
I suppose the reason why I'm still so interested with the story is that despite all the warfare that happens in the story it really focuses on the human aspect of things and not do the usual good guy vs bad guy theme. There really is no bad guys, just different sides. Even though Cao Cao was known as a tyrant, a different way of seeing it is that he is trying to unify the land as quickly as possible. While Liu Bei although portray as the hero has many flaws and often did things that indirectly caused the deaths of so many (Changban, Yiling)
And of course there is Zhuge Liang in the novel. Even though the things he did was fictional in the RoTK series, it's just epic and it's real enough to make me wonder if it could have actually happened. Anyways just wondering about other's feelings on the Three Kingdoms period.