why is it called "Romance of the three kingdoms" ? The kingdoms didnt make love to each other
Because it’s romanced, like a novel. By opposition to the Records of the Three Kingdoms.
>>217765908why arent there "Romance of the roman empire" or " romance of the 100 years war"?
>>217765833Romance here means as a novel
Romance in this case means "narrative book"
>>217765908>>217766039Novels are short stories
>>217766073No, that's novella
>>217766106Novella is italian for novel
>>217766023>why arent there "Romance of the roman empire"https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_Urbe_condita_libri>or " romance of the 100 years war"?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froissart%27s_Chronicles
>>217765833Because it happened during the Roman era
>>217766130Oaky but in English they mean different things
>>217766130In Romanian, novela is novella, roman is novel
>>217766023The roman empire is heavily romanticized in the west. Really, most ancient cultures are heavily romanticized. Look at Rome. Westerners look fondly upon it as a bastion of order, progress, scientific innovation, marvelous engineering, etc... while in reality it was an imperialistic genocidal slaver state that brutally conquered and subjugated anybody in their path of expansion.
>>217765833For me, it's Cow Cow.
>>217766460That's a good thing except they didn't finish the job
>>217765833>the whole country was a shithole where millions of people died over personal squabbles between warlords most of whom were glorified bandits>'oh its actually all romantic and a cool exiting dramatic story now and totally not depressing and pathetic'imagine they do this shit over syria,iraq,ukraine or any of the other warring shitholes
>>217765833Posts like these make me realize how bastardized some romance language words become when non-romance speakers touch them
>>217766460I think we romanticize Greeks more
>>217766652Some group of future people probably will romanticize Afghanistan this way. All the ingredients are there
>>217766806zhangs had a class of monks and nerds who knew how to write that existed during that era and especially after it that could romanticize and write things.i dont think anyone in afghanistan knows how to read that 'country' is more like an open zoo than an actual country
>>217765833It's basically homosexual romance. That's why 三国志演義 is well known in Japan more than China.
