China's first excellent historical novelThe first excellent historical novel in China was Romance of the Three Kingdoms. This novel was first published in 1939, and it is one of the milestone works in the history of Chinese literature. It is considered one of the four famous works in China. The novel was set in the Three Kingdoms period, which told the story of the rise and war of political figures such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the final establishment of the Three Kingdoms. The plot of the novel is complicated, the characters are full, and the language is beautiful. It is regarded as a classic work of Chinese classical novels.