1. A Dream of Red Mansions:
People's Literature Publishing House1982 August Beijing First Edition *** 1075000 words; The total number of words in Xu Jiapang's Stone is 731017; Qiben Stone is about 6 10000 words;
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms:
Including 73432 1 word;
3. Water Margin:
"Water Margin", * * * 960,000 words; "(Jin Shengtan halved) Water Margin" * * * 560,000 words;
4. Journey to the West:
* * * 820,000 words;
The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel about ghosts and gods in ancient China. Based on the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Buddhist Scriptures", the book deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing. This article mainly tells the story that the Monkey King was born, then met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand, all the way to protect Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures, and finally arrived in the Buddhist paradise to visit the Tathagata, and finally the five saints came true.
Since the advent of The Journey to the West, it has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There were six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions of ancient books. It has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Esperanto, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. He also published many research papers and monographs, and made a very high evaluation of this novel. Together with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Dream of Red Mansions, they are called the four classical novels of China.
Outlaws of the Marsh is one of China's four classical novels. It describes the story of heroes 108, headed by Song Jiang, who gathered in Liangshan at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, accepted the call-up and fought everywhere.
The Water Margin 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, and have 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.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel. Its full name is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the historical situation from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty 105, mainly describing the war, and tells the story of the warlord scuffle at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and military struggle among the three countries of Han, Wei and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
The book can be roughly divided into five parts: the Yellow turban insurrectionary, the Dong Zhuo insurrectionary, competing among the heroes, the tripartite confrontation among the three countries, and the return of the three countries to Jin. On a broad background, a magnificent war scene was staged. Luo Guanzhong, the editor, integrated the thirty-six strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War between the lines, including both the plot and the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
A Dream of Red Mansions is the first of China's four classical novels, and it is a novel written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. It is also called The Story of the Stone and Jinyuyuan. This book is divided into two editions: 120 Cheng Ben and 80 Fat Ben. The first 80 times of the new edition of the encyclopaedia were submitted to the school according to the fat book, and the last 40 times were submitted to the school according to Cheng Shu, with the signature "Cao Xueqin, anonymous sequel, Cheng Weiyuan, finishing". The author of the last 40 chapters is still controversial, but we should be alert to the extreme tendency of dwarfing or even deleting the last 40 chapters.
A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, the family affairs of Jia's family and the leisure of boudoir as the main line, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, depicting the beauty of humanity and tragedy of lovers centered on Jia Baoyu and Jinling Twelve Chai. Through family tragedy, daughter tragedy and protagonist's life tragedy, the end-time crisis of feudalism is revealed.
The author of A Dream of Red Mansions has a preliminary democratic thought. He profoundly criticized the real society, including the darkness of the court and officialdom, the decay of feudal nobles and their families, the feudal imperial examination system, the marriage system, the handmaiden system and the hierarchical system, and the corresponding social ruling thoughts, namely, Confucianism and social morality of Confucius and Mencius, and put forward vague ideals and propositions with preliminary democratic nature.
A Dream of Red Mansions encourages itself by "talking about love with great ambition and keeping a record of events", only follows its logic, gets rid of old habits, is fresh and unique, and has achieved extraordinary artistic achievements. The special brushwork of "the truth is hidden and the village tells lies" has opened the brains of later readers and speculated for a long time. Around the study of reading A Dream of Red Mansions, an outstanding school-Dream of Red Mansions has been formed.