Meng Dongguo posted, “A person who couldn’t even get into the Writers’ Association now wants to shamelessly teach ‘Appreciation of the Classics’? ‘Analysis of the Three Kingdoms’ was just a variety program. It was only presented to the masses and only touches the surface of the topic. Basically in the literary circle, as long as anyone has done deep enough research, they would know that ‘borrowing the east wind’ did not exist, that ‘the empty fort strategy’ also did not exist. Did we even need Zhang Ye to tell us? With most people already knowing this, you now want to use this information to teach the gifted students of Peking University? Isn’t that child’s play? Everyone, get this clear. Zhang Ye’s ‘Analysis of the Three Kingdoms’ is about history, not literature. If you use ‘Analysis of the Three Kingdoms’ to point out the logic of ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, then would this still be called literature? Literature and history are two different fields. If you are in the field of literature, then naturally you would need to study this novel’s value and significance and not make a fuss about it. This is really laughable, it’ll totally improperly belittle oneself!”
Someone replied after that.
“Right!”