Cai Dongfan's Historical Novels: Romance of Ming Dynasty (1)
by Cai Dongfan
About This Novel
"The Romance of the Ming Dynasty" is informative and tells us the history of the Ming Dynasty in a simple and easy-to-understand way. It took 276 years from the founding of the country by the civilian emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to the death of Sizong in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang rose to the occasion, and within a few years he expelled Emperor Yuan and unified China. He finally drove the foreigners out of China, but he was afraid of constant harassment, so he had to build the Great Wall high and thick. It was only at this time that Zheng He, who made seven voyages to the West, appeared, bringing with him the highest technology at the time and a huge fleet to greatly promote the power of the Ming Empire. Cai Dongfan's book romance emphasizes history over prose. Although it is slightly inferior to literary talent, it provides a vast and popular general history of the Ming Dynasty and made an indelible contribution to the popularization of Chinese historical knowledge. The author Cai Dongfan was a historian and novelist in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. When writing this historical romance, Cai Dongfan followed the principle of "taking official history as the basis, striving for conclusiveness, using anecdotes as the basis, and not making false accusations" in historical materials. He paid great attention to the authenticity of history and carefully examined the selection and use of historical materials. The work is highly readable and is a classic that history lovers cannot miss.
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