Ma Liang (187-222), courtesy name Jichang, was a native of Yicheng, Xiangyang (now south of Yicheng, Hubei Province). He was an official of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period and the brother of Ma Su.
The five Ma Liang brothers are all talented and famous, and Ma Liang is the most outstanding among them. Because of the white hairs in his eyebrows, he is known as Ma Liang with white eyebrows. Therefore, it is praised as "the five constant principles of Ma family, white eyebrows are the best". In the fourteenth year of Jian'an (209), Liu Bei served as the shepherd of Jingzhou and conquered it as a state. Ma Liang had a friendly relationship with Zhuge Liang. He was once sent as an envoy to Soochow and was received respectfully by Sun Quan.
In the first year of Zhangwu (221), Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor, established the Shu Han regime, and appointed Ma Liang as his minister. In the second year of Zhangwu (222), Liu Bei conquered Soochow and sent Ma Liang to recruit the Wuxi minority. In the same year, Liu Bei was defeated in the Battle of Yiling and Ma Liang was killed. Extended information
In the novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when Guan Yu conquered Wei, he used Ma Liang and Yi Ji as his staff to march together.
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" uses a relatively mature romance novel language to create more than 400 characters, describe the historical process of nearly a hundred years, and create a new novel genre. This is not only This made readers at that time "rush to copy and copy for viewing", and also stimulated the enthusiasm of scribes and booksellers to continue writing and publishing similar novels.
Since Jiajing, various historical romances have sprung up, starting from the beginning of the world to contemporary times. According to incomplete statistics, there are about one to two hundred kinds of historical romances from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The narrative of the novel begins in the first year of Zhongping (184), the first year of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, and ends in the first year of Taikang (280) of the Jin Dynasty. It gives a relatively complete account of the rise, development and demise of the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Wu. history. The novel draws on the compilation model of chronicle history books, takes the historical process of the Three Kingdoms disputes as the main line, focuses on the rise and fall of kings, and organically organizes the historical stories of the past century together.
It mainly writes about the political and military struggles during the Three Kingdoms period, and the author's interest lies in revealing how various military groups rose and fell during this period.
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