Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty, wrote the first romantic novel about ghosts and gods in ancient China. This article mainly tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protecting the Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures. They encountered eighty-one difficulties along the way, turned evil spirits all the way, saved the day, and finally reached the Western Heaven and obtained the true scriptures.
The Journey to the West is the most outstanding ghost novel full of fantastic ideas in the history of China literature. Wu Cheng'en, the author, used romanticism to soar with unparalleled imagination, portrayed a colorful, magical and magnificent fantasy world, created a series of fascinating fairy tales, and successfully shaped the idealized hero image of the Monkey King. In the fantasy world, it reflects secular human feelings and feelings in a tortuous way, shows fresh human wisdom, and is full of realistic flesh and blood and rich flavor of life. The Journey to the West, with his unique thoughts and artistic charm, brought readers into the beautiful art palace and felt its artistic charm.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, it is the first historical romance novel in China. It describes the historical situation of nearly a hundred years from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the early Western Jin Dynasty. The book reflects the political and military struggle, the infiltration and transformation of various social contradictions in the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era and shapes a group of heroes.
Luo Guanzhong integrated culture from two different levels of elegance and vulgarity, and distorted it according to his own subjective understanding, values and artistic likes and dislikes, thus making his works rich in cultural connotations. In The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, there are not only the refraction of the ideology of the upper ruling class, but also profound folk thoughts. It is a visualized history of the rise and fall of the Three Kingdoms and a political and military history in the eyes of the people.
"Water Margin", also known as Loyalty Water Margin, was written by Shi Naian, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu, in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is one of China's four classical novels. The book describes the story of 108 heroes headed by Song Jiang in Liangshan Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. After gathering righteousness, they accepted the appeal and fought everywhere. The Water Margin, written by Shi Naian and edited by Luo Guanzhong, is also one of the most epic works in China literature. This is one of the earliest Zhang Hui novels written in vernacular Chinese in the history of China. There are many versions, which are widely circulated and widely known. It has a far-reaching influence on narrative literature in China and even East Asia.
The Water Margin is a novel with the theme of describing the ancient peasant uprising. It vividly depicts the whole process of peasant uprising from its occurrence, development to failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle and social ideal of the uprising heroes, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.
A Dream of Red Mansions is the first novel among the four classical novels in ancient China. It was originally named Re-evaluation of the Stone by Hongyan Zhai, and it is also known as Love Monk Record, Yue Feng Treasure Mirror, Twelve Women in Jinling, Tears Return, Jinyuyuan and so on. The preface of Dream Master was officially named A Dream of Red Mansions.
A Dream of Red Mansions is a great work with high ideological and artistic quality. As a literary work written in the late feudal society and the middle of Qing Dynasty, this book systematically summarizes the culture and system of China feudal society, profoundly criticizes all aspects of feudal society, and puts forward hazy ideals and propositions with preliminary democratic nature. These ideals and ideas are the tortuous reflection of the budding factors of the growing capitalist economy at that time.