Who is the author of "New Vernacular Popular Historical Romance"?

Cai Dongfan (1877- 1945) was born in Linpu (now Xiaoshan), Shanyin County, Zhejiang Province from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, a famous writer and historian of romance novels. Cai Dongfan was a scholar at the age of 14. Later, he went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, was awarded excellent tribute, and was assigned to Fujian as an alternate magistrate. Because he was dissatisfied with the bad habits of officialdom, he admitted that he was ill and returned to his hometown a few months later. After the Revolution of 1911, he taught in Hangzhou and Shaoxing successively. It took Cai Dongfan 65,438+00 years to complete the popular romance of China, which spanned from Qin Shihuang to nine years of the Republic of China. Its content spans a long time, with a large number of people and a huge system, which provides a vast and well-known general history of China for later generations, and also makes an indelible contribution to popularizing China's historical knowledge and becomes the best historical romance. Therefore, Cai Dongfan is known as "a generation of historians, a masterpiece of a thousand years". In addition, Cai Dongfan also wrote Liu Qing Bieji, Couplets Daquan, Poems in Poems, Poems of the Moon, Poems of Mourning Grass, etc.

Historical romances written by Cai Dongfan can be divided into three categories:

One is from Qin Shihuang to 1920, and * * * wrote 2 166. They are: pre-Qin popular romance (attached to Qin Dynasty) 100 times, post-Han popular romance (attached to Three Kingdoms) 100 times, Jin popular romance 100 times, North-South historical popular romance 100 times, and popular romance 65,440 times. The popular romance of Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty 100, Qing Dynasty 100, Republic of China 120 (Xu Yufu continued to write 40 times, counting 160) * * are collectively called the popular romance of past dynasties, or the popular romance of past dynasties in China.

Cai Dongfan did not write these books in the order of dynasties. The order of his books is: 1. Qing history. Second, yuan dynasty history. Third, Ming history. Fourth, the history of the Republic of China. V. History of Song Dynasty. 6. Tang Shi. Seven, the history of the Five Dynasties. Eight, the history of North and South. 9. History of Jin Dynasty. X. History before the Han Dynasty. Xi。 History of post-Han dynasty. Shanghai Huiwentang Xinji Bookstore has successively published this 1 1 romance novel. The popular romance of Qing Dynasty was first published in July 19 16, and the popular romance of the later Han Dynasty was published in September 1926 at the latest. At first, all smooth lithographs were printed. At that time, the sales of this set of books were very large. 1935, Huiwentang Xinji Bookstore changed all of them to print edition, and added 40 chapters after Popular Romance of the Republic of China, with the total title of Popular Romance of Past Dynasties, which is divided into 40 volumes. Another book, The Origin of Publishing Popular Romance Revision, was published, which brought together the preface of the book and the return of each book. The second edition was published, and the sales volume greatly exceeded the last one.

Followed by The Romance of the Western Empress or The Romance of the Empress Dowager Cixi, about 300,000 words, published by Shanghai Huiwentang Bookstore 19 16.

Third, the historical dynasty romance was updated. This was written by Lu Anshi of Xinchang in the early Qing Dynasty and updated by his grandfather. From the creation of Pangu to the Qing Dynasty, the number of words was around 500,000. Published by Shanghai Dadong Bookstore.