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Well this has to be the most famous period in chinese history judging by the exposure it gets in chinese movie epics. "The emperor and the assassin", "hero" to name only those two always use this specific historical background.

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Kevin G. Murtagh

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Posts: 3 Location: Ireland

Thu 07 May, 2009 9:20 am

just wondering seems as I'm the only one at my school who has heard of it (unfortunately) I just always found the tactics and weaponry used more interesting than anything in medieval Europe.

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Emmet J. McGauran

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Posts: 35 Location: North West UK

Thu 07 May, 2009 2:34 pm

I became quite interested in this when I was younger due to the 'Dynasty Warriors' games on the Playstation which are based (loosely) on 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.'

John Woo has actually just made a movie called 'Red Cliff' about one of the major battles of the time. The production looks good, so it will be interesting to see the arms and armour they use.

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Bennison N

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Posts: 416 Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Thu 07 May, 2009 8:34 pm

Julien M wrote:

Well this has to be the most famous period in chinese history judging by the exposure it gets in chinese movie epics. "The emperor and the assassin", "hero" to name only those two always use this specific historical background.

Julien, the period you're thinking of is Qin (Chin) Dynasty, not 3 Kingdoms Era. This time is so popular because China takes it's name from this period (Chin-na), language (written AND spoken) was standardised, money too. The Emperor of this time, Qin Shihuangdi, had the Terracotta Army made to protect his dead body.

The Three Kingdoms Period is a little later, and led to the Han Dynasty, "The Golden Age of Poetry". I love the stories of this time... Liu Bei's Generals in particular, their weapons too.

I studied this time in some depth a few years ago. What did you want to know about it?

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Li Jin

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Posts: 46 Location: NYC

Fri 08 May, 2009 7:49 am

Liu Bei is the heir of Imperial family. People usually thinks that he is a Wei Jun Zi in English it means Hypocrite. Liu Bei gone through a difficult time, hes son Liu Chan is something we called The one who cannot be lifted. Meaning no matter how you teach he just won't get it right.

many tins happened during that time quite interesting. But todays novel we read about is a Romance. So it migh not be the truth.

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Kevin G. Murtagh

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Posts: 3 Location: Ireland

Fri 08 May, 2009 8:24 am

Yeah i got into it through Dynasty Warriors too, which led to a history project for school and I was hooked from there :)

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Lafayette C Curtis

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Posts: 2,698 Location: Indonesia

Sat 09 May, 2009 2:03 am

Bennison N wrote:

The Three Kingdoms Period is a little later, and led to the Han Dynasty, "The Golden Age of Poetry". I love the stories of this time... Liu Bei's Generals in particular, their weapons too.

Um...the Three Kingdoms period was the time of the decline and fall of the Han Dynasty, not its rise.

Personally, I find this period a bit overdone (or maybe that's just me having read too many Chinese epics and watched too many Chinese movies), and I'm rather more interested in the Tang Dynasty and the last century-and-a-half of the Ming Dynasty before its fall to Manchu invaders. Even when it comes to the Sanguo states themselves, I must say I'm not too impressed by the characters and institutions of the Shu state (with the sole exception of Zhuge Liang); instead, the ones who piqued my interest were the more ambiguous characters at and around the head of the Wei state, especially the good old devil Cao Cao himself.

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Bennison N

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Posts: 416 Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Sat 09 May, 2009 4:15 pm

Haha! You're right! I hadn't noticed that...

It should have said "The Three Kingdoms Period is a little later, and led to the END OF THE Han Dynasty, "The Golden Age of Poetry". I love the stories of this time... Liu Bei's Generals in particular, their weapons too."

Thanks for noticing that, mate.

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M. Eversberg II

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Posts: 1,435 Location: California, Maryland, USA

Sun 10 May, 2009 12:02 am

Never been much of an Eastern history person (which is probably not good), but this period sounds rather interesting.

M.

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J Anstey

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Sun 10 May, 2009 9:24 pm

Lafayette C Curtis wrote:

Bennison N wrote:

The Three Kingdoms Period is a little later, and led to the Han Dynasty, "The Golden Age of Poetry". I love the stories of this time... Liu Bei's Generals in particular, their weapons too.

Um...the Three Kingdoms period was the time of the decline and fall of the Han Dynasty, not its rise.

Personally, I find this period a bit overdone (or maybe that's just me having read too many Chinese epics and watched too many Chinese movies), and I'm rather more interested in the Tang Dynasty and the last century-and-a-half of the Ming Dynasty before its fall to Manchu invaders. Even when it comes to the Sanguo states themselves, I must say I'm not too impressed by the characters and institutions of the Shu state (with the sole exception of Zhuge Liang); instead, the ones who piqued my interest were the more ambiguous characters at and around the head of the Wei state, especially the good old devil Cao Cao himself.

Hi Lafayette et al

I currently have a Tang Jian sword being made for me by one of the few sword smiths in China making authentic Chinese swords.

THis guy starts by smelting his own steel from Iron rich river sand!!! I hope to share some pics when I get a chance.

Cheers

Jason

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