Introduction to "The Romance of Ten Kingdoms" Luo Xiaozhong
During the Qianfu period at the end of the Tang Dynasty, droughts and tyrants were raging, and the people were in dire straits. Huang Chao raised his arms and shouted, and the world responded. The three hundred-year-old foundation of the Tang Dynasty collapsed. Since then, the Central Plains has been in chaos. In the fifty-three years, the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, and Wu dynasties have changed. You can sing and I will appear on the stage. In the south and Bashu, the ten kingdoms of Wu, Southern Tang, Wuyue, Fujian, Southern Han, Chu, Nanping, Later Shu, Northern Han, and Former Shu were divided. Some were peaceful in a corner, or they were competing for supremacy. Troubled times swept the nine states.
This is an epic of heroes and heroes: Zhu Wen rebelled against the Qi Dynasty and usurped the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong carried a grudge with three arrows, Li Cunxu avenged the Liang Dynasty and destroyed the Liang Dynasty, Chai Rongying expanded the territory with military force, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied; there were also loyal ministers and generals who died generously, and treacherous villains disrupted the government and harmed the country. The book includes the battles of Baixiang and Gaoping, the intrigues of the palace, and the tragedy of troubled times where people are in ruins.
The book takes history as its outline and uses vernacular texts to lay out more than 500 chapters, detailing the century-old disputes from the Huangchao Uprising to the Song Dynasty's destruction of the Northern Han Dynasty, and restores the division and unity, loyalty and betrayal, prosperity and decadence of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. It has the grand momentum of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the delicate depiction of group portraits in troubled times. It finally condenses the magnificent history of the struggle between dragons and tigers into an eternal song of rising and falling, and the support of the people.
