△ ? Game of Thrones should learn from the 1994 version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series
△ ? After Game of Thrones, if you're not done, you need to watch this Romance of the Three Kingdoms
△ ? The Twitterverse is full of people saying, "I'm going to repeat the Romance of the Three Kingdoms after I finish watching KwonGuyong."
I always thought it was just a case of foreigners having no place to go to vent their anger, and using the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a theoretical weapon of their own, blasting the KwonGuyong production team's flesh and blood. Then I realized that wasn't the case, and that foreigners do have a genuine love for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Games like the recently released Total War: Three Kingdoms, which is a quality 3A masterpiece, have attracted a lot of attention.
But looking at the name, I still think something is wrong. Based on my past experience, I think this game is likely to be a foreigner under the banner of the Three Kingdoms, for the Chinese people's wallets of money. But after I investigated I realized that things weren't what I thought they were.
When the trailer for this game first went live, foreigners sat up and exclaimed, "OuBaiKa. To this day, the trailer has almost 3 million views on YouTube alone.
The user with the highest number of likes in the comments at the bottom was a user named Garo, who paraphrased a famous quote from the Three Kingdoms, saying? "Your own wallet, together for a long time will be divided". A user at the bottom of the message chimed in: "My X, you're damn right!"
△ Shut up and take my money!
And it's not just talk that makes foreigners love the game. Even the dying wish of a black American man suffering from leukemia was to be able to play Three Kingdoms: Total War before he died.
△ ? My brother wanted to play Total War: Three Kingdoms once before he died, who can help me?" This sick friend eventually got the help of enthusiastic netizens and game developers, and really realized his dying wish
It seems that the love of foreigners for this game is beyond my imagination. In order to complete the unification of the hegemony faster, they began to pick the lights at night, mending the Three Kingdoms plot, spontaneously go to the oil pipe to learn the history of the Three Kingdoms, ready to bend the road to overtake the car. For example, the minimalist Three Kingdoms history video on YouTube has already had 4.58 million plays in just one month.
But how can a minimalist history of the Three Kingdoms video satisfy foreigners like a dog in heat? They went on a Reddit frenzy, attempting to greedily learn everything they could about the Three Kingdoms. On the contrary, those who know the Three Kingdoms can then show off their knowledge on social networks and win the praise of the crowd.
△ ? "If Sun Quan wins, Cao Wei will be cool," Reddit user Rudy wittily analyzed
These foreigners' fervor for the Three Kingdoms style has actually been around for a long time. This group of European and American Three Kingdoms fans, as early as 2003, built a BBS called Kong Ming to exchange learning experiences.
And "Three Kingdoms" original, must also be well studied. If the translations don't reflect the essence of the Three Kingdoms, then you'll have to collect multiple versions on Amazon, and have comparisons in order to have a deeper understanding.
△ ? A foreign iron fan of the Three Kingdoms shows his 5 versions of the Three Kingdoms translation
Once the knowledge is learned, you have to discuss the plot of the Three Kingdoms with everyone. A lot of foreign boys who are full of vigor fantasize that they are Changshan Zhao Zilong and can go in and out of Changbanpo a few times.
△ ? If the U.S. team has Zhao Zilong, may not be able to shoot the fourth part of the reunion
The foreigners of the Three Kingdoms frenzy, not only limited to the literary interpretation. In their view, the Three Kingdoms, not only is a high school teacher, college president recommended summer reading, but also a distant signal, a totem of the East. In the hearts of different believers, there is a hero of the Three Kingdoms of their own.
In the hearts of many Americans, Guan Yunchang is a hero well worth worshipping. Guan Yunchang holds the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and is full of a sense of power and justice. There is no doubt that such a green-robed god of war can protect their communities and estates.
△ ? Guan Yu beheading Captain America: Captain America time travel, mistakenly back to Shu Han, not good strength, was Guan Yunchang warm wine chopped under the horse
Some pious people, from Amazon to buy carved Guan Yu jade to wear on the body, for good luck.
In addition, some foreigners will buy a Guan Yu at home as a hand puppet. They do not worship Guan Yu like the ancient Oriental people to pray for luck, but instead see Guan Yu as a symbol of strength, family decorations.
△ ? "Guan Yu fits the description and goes very well with my dresser at home."
"God of War"
There are also foreigners, Christmas are not in the garden pile of snowmen plug radish, directly piled up a statue of Guan Yu, in the eyes of this family, Christmas Eve in the home to put a red Guan Yu, is to keep the peace.
△ ? Shu Han green robes changed to wear Santa Claus robes, is also considered in the foreign use
Foreigners in Christmas offerings Guan Yu, is not unreasonable, after all, Guan Er master martial arts. In the "Battle of the Gods" fighting game, Guan Yu on the basis of the long-distance crescent moon blade, against Santa Claus floating six, cut Santa Claus without the power to fight back.
So, in addition to making pilgrimages and offerings, foreigners have also begun to learn the heirloom blade skills of Master Guan Yu.
The old Texas Gon put down the Glock, picked up the replica Qinglong Crescent Blade began to practice the sword, guarding the manor, a perfect interpretation: the winning soldiers first win, and then seek war.
△ ? Crew saw all said well, have sold Glock, bought up the Guan knife
△ I respect Guan Yu's person, more love his Guan knife
Even some white-collar workers also put down the work at hand, the use of the holidays to play up the big knife, fat loss and muscle growth, and training of anti-wolf fighting techniques.
Imagine, you carry a green dragon crescent knife strolling in Queens, New York, and then the ruthless black brother is estimated to be a tiger's body, not to mention holding a large Guan Jian waving in the air, that is estimated to be the whole ghetto are you.
But some Guan Yu fans, and even set up a ring in the park, with other martial arts masters.
△ ? But for some reason, Xiyang Guan Yu and Dian Wei were in the middle of a fierce battle, but suddenly fell hugging and tearing up
For these foreigners who love Guan Yu, Guan Ershi is literally the light of these people's lives, a lighthouse that guides them to be hopeful about their lives.
△ ? Even, on Youtube, there are videos of foreigners teaching foreigners how to place the statue of Guan Yu in Feng Shui.
In order to follow this light, some foreigners traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean just to offer incense at the entrance of the Guan Gong Temple.
△ ? However, according to his friend, he went to the wrong place, this foreigner may have been pitched by the tour group and went to Thailand. The real Guan Yu temple is still two countries away from him
△ ? The real Guan Yu believers, who have reached the Guan Di Temple in Luoyang, got Guan Yu's notice amidst the green smoke and bought two copies of the secret book of Guan Er Master's sword technique from a hawker stall at the foot of the mountain
They not only admire Guan Yu as a person, but they even empathize with the ups and downs of Guan Yu's career in his workplace.
A reader named Brian Lanning after seeing Guan Gong go to the city, very sad and depressed, can not dissipate the balance, wrote the name of the hero of the death of the Western Three Kingdoms literature of the majestic.
When he read Guan Yu's walk to the city, he began to think that the second master would fight back with bravery; but Luo Guanzhong declared Guan Yu's death decisively, and then this is what he said.
△ ? Interested in the original link: /novel/writings/blanning/death_of_greatness.php
"I threw the book under the bed, rushed outside the house in the night rain, smoked a cigarette while looking at the sky, the sky was dotted with stars, but it could not banish the darkness inside me; I wanted to find this man named Luo Guanzhong to talk about why he wrote the great martial arts saint to death."
△ ? Luo Guanzhong, who has long rested in the Chinese mainland, would never have imagined that in a mysterious country where a strange language is spoken, there are people who still think about him, seek him, and complain about him so much
"I can't think. The great hero has been defeated, killed, and even beheaded by a bunch of frustrated pussies."
But not everyone is so fanatical about Guan Yu, and on this Three Kingdoms forum called KongMing, a poll was launched to discuss just how strong Guan Yu is.
△ ? What do you think of Guan Yu? 52% of people don't like Guan Yu and think his strength is overrated
Who are these people who voted against him? I think, to a large extent, they represent corporate executives and workplace elites who love the Three Kingdoms, for whom Guan Yu, a vote for military generals, no matter how awesome they look, is a symbol of bravery but no strategy.
They have more faith in Cao Cao's planning and strategizing, and Cao Cao is not only their favorite actor, but also their corporate mentor and MBA lecturer.
△ ? In their minds, Cao Cao is the Tywin Lannister of power games, doing whatever it takes to unite the world
Cao Cao's power and wisdom, as demonstrated in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, became an invaluable source of business wisdom for corporate managers, who organized and translated it into business courses.
In the eyes of the instructors, Cao Cao not only treated his men equally, but also established an effective KPI mechanism to distinguish between reward and punishment. In addition, Cao Cao's business, Wei, with its well-developed corporate plan, is an unparalleled case study.
As long as it is related to Cao Cao's management articles, foreign leaders are called good, feeling that seeing a text is better than doing ten years of boss.
△ Leadership Program (Lesson 1): Cao Cao
Even Cao Cao's classic language has been made into an emoticon, which is spreading in the foreigner's company group and parent group.
△ Don't get angry, getting angry makes you stupid - Cao Cao
In addition to Cao Cao, in the Three Kingdoms management course, I found that Zhang Fei was at one point the antithesis of leaders.
In the course, Zhang Fei's drinking off the Dangyang Bridge is the most typical example of the opposite. It's as if the boss is in a meeting, lashing out at his employees, and on the surface the employees are obsequious, but in reality the productivity is not high.
And Guan Yu single knife to the meeting, is a successful management show, waving a big knife, is to the employees express reward and punishment, smooth is born, against the wage deduction.
And Guan Yu pulled Lu Su brother, is to establish a relationship with the core technical staff ties, on the one hand, to establish corporate prestige, on the other hand, to control the core people, you can reduce the risk of business operations, ride on the sailboat of wealth.
This is actually very similar to us in 2000, when China's economy was growing savagely at the same time, the bosses were eager to pursue the road to riches, but also have pointed their attention to the ancient masterpieces, looking for the doorway of management.
So, from this **** the same point of view, foreigners like the Three Kingdoms, there is nothing difficult to understand, we all have **** the same value claims, preferences, all hope to draw some practice from the masterpiece nutrients.
Historical perspective, good works can find an audience there, where you can find people willing to pay the bill.
In the future, Yihuang Culture will put more energy into planning activities and designing the "national trend", and we hope you will pay more attention to it, so that the cultural output can be more violent!