1, A Dream of Red Mansions, an ancient chapter-style novel in China, also known as The Story of the Stone, is listed as the first classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, which is generally considered to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty.
Based on the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, the novel depicts the life of a group of beautiful women in the boudoir from the perspective of Jia Baoyu, a rich son, and shows the true beauty and tragedy of human nature. It can be said that it is an epic that shows the beauty of women from all angles.
2. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel, which is called the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. There are several versions of the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, such as Jiajing Renwu Edition. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang had rearranged the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, revised the wording and changed the poems.
3. The Water Margin is a chapter-by-chapter novel with the Sung River Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty as the main story background and a heroic legend in type. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing periodicals have one or two people, Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.
4. The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.
This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing. The book mainly describes the story of the Monkey King's encounter with Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand after his birth, and his disturbance to the Heaven Palace. He went west to learn from the scriptures, demonized all the way, and after eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints died.
5. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese by Pu Songling, a novelist in Qing Dynasty in China. They either exposed the darkness of feudal rule, attacked the decay of imperial examination system, or resisted the shackles of feudal ethics, and had rich and profound ideological content.
The works describing the theme of love are the largest in the book, showing a strong anti-feudal ethical code spirit. Some of these works show the author's ideal love through the love between foxes and people.
6. The Scholars is a novel of Wu in Qing Dynasty, which consists of 56 chapters. It depicts various people's different expressions of "fame and fortune" in a realistic way. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corrosion of human nature, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucrats and the hypocrisy of imperial examinations at that time;
On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese in the novel is becoming more and more skillful, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the superb satirical techniques, which makes this book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature. ?
7. The Romance of Gods is a novel written by Xu (controversial) in Ming Dynasty? , is about a book by Qin Long in Wanli period. A hundred times, the book is about the story of the king of Wu cutting Zhou. The first 30 chapters focus on Zhou Wang's tyranny, Jiang Ziya's seclusion, his trip to Xi 'an and Jiang Ziya's assistance. The prince of Wu completed the great crusade against Zhou Wang.
The last 70 chapters are dominated by Shang and Zhou wars, mixed with religious struggles. They explain how to teach and help Zhou, stop teaching and help Shang, show their own teachings and kill each other. As a result, the interception failed, Zhou Wang set himself on fire, King Wu seized the world, enfeoffed other countries, and Jiang Ziya returned to China to offer sacrifices to the gods, so that the people and ghosts who made meritorious service to the country returned to their homes. ?
The novel takes the historical concept and political concept as the ideological framework to support the book, mixed with a lot of grand imagination, which shows the author's support and praise for benevolent monarchs and saints, as well as his dissatisfaction and resistance to ruthless and ignorant monarchs.
8. Biography of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is a historical novel in ancient China, written by Feng Menglong, a novelist in the late Ming Dynasty. Written in ancient vernacular, this novel mainly describes the history of more than 500 years from the period of Western Zhou Xuanwang to the unification of the six countries by Qin Shihuang.
Biography of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is a novel of vernacular historical romance in Ming Dynasty. When Zhou Xuanwang was easily killed, and when he was praised by chance, the history of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty began its hundreds of years of history. This is a novel with the longest time span and the largest number of characters in ancient and modern China and foreign countries. It describes the story of "nation" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ China's Eight Masterpieces