In 2022, high school must read famous works, such as The Analects of Confucius, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, A Dream of Red Mansions, Shout, Border Town, Four Generations under One roof, Red Rock, Ordinary World, Thunderstorm, Eugenie Grandet, The Virgin, The Old Man and the Sea, etc.
Jiangsu Chinese College Entrance Examination requires students to read eleven famous works, namely Dream of Red Mansions by Cao E, Romance of Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, Home by Ba Jin, Teahouse by Lao She, Border Town by Shen Congwen, Scream by Lu Xun, Birds by Tagore, Hamlet by Shakespeare, Grandet by Balzac and Hemingway.
Poetry, such as Mao Zedong's poetry, the works of Guo Moruo, Dai Wangshu, Ai Qing, Cang Kejia, He Jingzhi and Guo Xiaochuan; Works by Heine, Pushkin, Whitman, Tagore, etc. Novels, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin and The Scholars by Wu.
Dramas, such as Dou Eyuan by Guan Hanqing, The West Chamber by Wang Shifu, Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu, Qu Yuan by Guo Moruo, Thunderstorm by Cao Yu, Teahouse by Lao She, Hamlet by Shakespeare, etc.
How to read famous books in high school
First of all, the reason why a masterpiece is a masterpiece is that it has far-reaching significance and is spread all over the world.
If most people don't understand it, it will be difficult to meet the conditions of spreading around the world. However, if the simple gossip about current affairs does not have far-reaching characteristics, then combining the two, masterpieces are often literary works widely circulated in a certain era/region.
Therefore, we can draw a conclusion that in order to understand famous works more easily, we need to have certain literary literacy and common sense of historical situation. Needless to say, literary literacy has stood in the upstream of the history of human civilization, and we don't have to worry too much about this kind of thing.
The rest is the understanding of the relevant historical era.