Where does "Phoenix is not a phoenix tree" come from?

From Chapter 37 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The original sentence: "Phoenix flies thousands of miles, and non-birds are not born; Master is on the side, not the Lord. "

Phoenix flies thousands of miles, not because the buttonwood can't live; Soldiers are put in one place, not because the Lord does not obey.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel. Its full name is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

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Creation background

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, social contradictions were sharp, and peasant uprisings broke out one after another. After years of war, Zhu Yuanzhang wiped out heroes, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty. During this period, people were displaced, and Luo Guanzhong, as a playwright and playwright, lived at the bottom of society.

Understand and be familiar with the people's sufferings, expect social stability, people live and work in peace and contentment, think as the bottom intellectuals, and hope to end the tragic situation caused by the turmoil. Thus came the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was based on the history of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

social influence

With a length of 750,000 words, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms created more than 400 characters with mature novel language, described the historical process of nearly a hundred years, and created a new novel genre, which not only made readers at that time "copy for viewing", but also inspired scribes and booksellers to continue writing and publishing similar novels.

Since Jiajing, various historical romances have mushroomed and come out constantly, from the beginning to the present. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 200 kinds of historical romances in Ming and Qing Dynasties.