Recently I bought a set of CDs TV series 84 episodes, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. It's a story about the war of three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu. It is a well recognized part of Chinese history which happened during an era of disunity called the Six Dynasties. The famous story has been made into a movie named The Red Cliff and was release globally in last year. The following is the story of 1st episode.

It was 184AD, Spring of Jian Ning year in China. People were in great fear due to a strange bright light plunged into Huang He river. These indicated a bad sign that something is going to happened. China sink into an unprecedented disaster. Heavy taxes imposed by the government causes misery to the people. This scenario became worse by unceasing misfortunes and plagues. And thus the people are deprived of their livelihood.

In addition, people throughout the land began to revolt one after another. The largest peasant rebel forces was lead by a Taoist named Zhang Jiao also known as the Yellow Turbans. Several hundred thousands peasants all across the country joined effort to overthrow the corrupt government.

At this point, there were 3 heroes sworn as brothers with the desires of a peaceful and safe country. Liu Bei (Liu Xuande), Guan Yu (Yunchang), Zhang Fei (Yide) started raise army and safe the people from the Yellow Turban rebels. Having sworn as brothers, the three begins their journey across the country to gather heroes and warriors. In this chaotic world, the story of the Three Kingdoms began.