A Dream of Red Mansions is the most influential novel in China's ancient literary works, and Zhi Yanzhai is the earliest critic and the most valuable critic among all the critics of A Dream of Red Mansions. Finishing and publishing this critical book by Zhi Yanzhai is of great help to study, read and even study A Dream of Red Mansions.
Mao Zonggang criticized The Romance of the Three Kingdoms for modifying Luo Guanzhong's original works, sorting out the contents, deleting comments, modifying poems, adding and deleting trivial matters and modifying the wording, thus forming 120 popular books today. Mao's criticism of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is of great significance in the history of China's novel criticism.
Jin Shengtan's storytelling, also known as Shi Naian Water Margin, is a famous water margin version popular in Qing Dynasty. It has been popular all over the world for more than 300 years since its publication, and it is one of the wonderful books necessary for readers' desks. The outstanding genius Jin Shengtan's criticism of Water Margin has become a peak in the history of China's novel criticism. His clever tongue opened the horizon and literary mind of future generations.
The Journey to the West is not only one of the four fantastic books in Ming Dynasty, but also one of the four classical novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, Ye Zhou made a comprehensive comment on The Journey to the West under the guise of Li Zhuowu, put forward a unique view on the absurdity of The Journey to the West, and made a thought-provoking comment on the characters in The Journey to the West from the perspective of the secular wisdom of ordinary people.