Research on The Image of Assisting Officials in The Early Days of Eastern Wu Dynasty -- With The History of Three Kingdoms and The Romance of Three Kingdoms as Research Scope

• Main Authors: Tsai Pei Chen, 蔡佩真
• Other Authors: 柯金虎
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mct32n

碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 中國語文學系碩士在職專班 === 101 === Prior to the Eastern Jin Dynasty（317-419）, both the degree of development and humanistic performance in the middle and downstream area of Yangtze River were not as prosperous and speedy as the ones in the Central Plain which is the area of the middle and downstream of Yellow River. The Yuan Jia Rebellion（307-312）in the Western Jin Dynasty forced the Nobles to move south to seek refuge. The move had boosted prosperous development in the fields of politics, academic research and culture and this trend had become even prosperous in both the Tang Dynasty and the Sung Dynasty. As for Sun family's competence to gain a foothold in a world divided by three powers in the Eastern Wu Dynasty（222-280） during the times of the Three Kingdoms, there must be assistance from a group of loyal, candid and thoughtful officials in addition to Sung Jen, Sung Ce and Sung Quan's preeminent leadership. Emphasis of this research lies on the analysis of these extraordinary figures of Chou Yu, Lu Su and Lu Xun who exerted preeminent performance in leadership and management. This paper uses "History of the Three Kingdoms" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as the basis to explore performance and image of assisting officials in the early days of the Eastern Wu Dynasty （252, the year before Sun Quan died). In history, Chou Yu was a man with excellent strategies and majestic appearance while he was portrayed as a narrow-minded man in the novel. In history, Lu Su was a smart man with spectacular strategies while he was stuck in the "Eight Formation" in the novel. Gu Yun was a calm man good at drafting strategies. Each one of his comments was proven true. In history, Lu Men was a man with extraordinary courage. But according to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," he did not present the same performance in latter days. Official historic materials were edited based on numerous historic records. There were differences in the contents but respective historian's knowledge on history as well as their different talents were adopted during the editing. Although the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a novel, 60 to 70 percent of it was based on history records while the remaining 30 to 40 percent was derived from storytelling and the author's unique thoughts. Loyalty, treacherousness, righteousness and evil in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" had been deep-rooted in the minds of people. However, there shouldn't be any misinterpretation on what was right or wrong. With the comparison between official history records and novels, we'll be able to distinguish the true history from attractiveness.