Friday, April 24, 2009

Mother's Memorable Read


Now, I am going to introduce the book my mother had remebered since she was a young girl. The book is Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century, it is a Chinese historical novel. It is acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, with a grand total of 800,000 words, nearly a thousand characters, and consists of 120 chapters. The books is about events in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era of China, starting in 169 and ending with the reunification of the land in 280. It is a very nice book. My mother told me that when she was young, there was no library for them to read or borrow books. She came across with the book during the chinese literature lesson. Every students had a copy and my mother had kept the book till now. Till today, the plots in Roamance of the Three Kingdoms still resonates with her as it is the very first book she had read which is about history of China. The book had taught her how to be a better person and helped her to gain her vocabulary.

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