| The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the first mature historical novel in the history of Chinese literature, is a remarkable work for its long-time composition process and its wide spread and influence as well as the status of being the first full-length novel in China.The author, Luo Guanzhong, who had generalized the predecessors'creative achievements, set up an ideal social structure for the king and his subjects. In ancient China, the relationship of the king and the subjects was a very subtle problem and the scholars of all dynasties have been constantly exploring the basic norms for such a relationship, which thereby has been reflected in every literary genre.The ideal social relationship between the king and the people the author wrote in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is shown in the plot Liu Bei's visiting Zhu Geliang's cottage thrice and Zhu Geliang's assisting Liu Bei in governing the kingdom of Shu, and in the plot Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei the three heroes' swearing their brotherhood in peach garden. These plots reflect that sage-kings eagerly wanted talented ministers to govern the kingdom and that a warrior was supposed to be loyal to his king.Based on previous researches done by other scholars and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, this paper discusses the general relationship between the king and the subjects in the feudal period, and such relationship the author has conveyed in his book and the cultural origins of it. Through a global comprehensive study of the three parts, this paper again, tries to seek a cultural reason for such an ideal relationship rooted in the people of different social classes and gives my own reinterpretation and structure.
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