On the Destiny View in The Legend of the Three Kingdoms

The destiny view started by the people of Shang and Zhou Dynasties had undergone various analysis and interpretation of generations of Confucian scholars and had acquired more connotations, and had become the idealist thought with the profound social content. As an important part of novelist thoughts, such view runs through the whole The Legend of the Three Kingdoms, and has become an important factor leading the plot of the whole novel, determining various figures’ destiny, and interpreting the rule of historical development.