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14th-century Chinese writer

In this Chinese name, the family name is Luo.

Luo Ben (c. 1330–1400,^[1] or c.1280–1360^[2]), better known by his courtesy nameGuanzhong (Mandarin pronunciation: [lwo kwanʈʂʊŋ]), was a Chinese novelist who lived during the Ming dynasty.

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He is also known by his pseudonym Huhai Sanren (Chinese: 湖海散人; pinyin: Húhǎi Sǎnrén; lit. 'Leisure Man of Lakes and Seas').^[3] Luo Guanzhong is credited with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Identity

The location and date of Luo Guanzhong's birth are controversial. One possibility^{[citation needed]} was that he was from Taiyuan, and lived in the late Yuan dynasty and early Ming dynasty by the record of his contemporary, the playwright Jia Zhongming (賈仲明), who said that he had met him in 1364^{[citation needed]}.

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