The first dream of red mansions
The second The Journey to the West
The third "Water Margin"
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Part IV
The fifth "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio"
The sixth book "Yu Shi Ming Yan"
The seventh book "Negative Teaching Material"
The eighth "wake up the world"
The ninth "Surprise at the First Moment"
The tenth "surprise moment"
China's Ten Classic Novels
Typical Works Embodying Chinese National Temperament
Dream of Red Mansions: Because of its huge social capacity and ideological capacity, it is called the "encyclopedia" of feudal society in China, and the study of this book has also become a discipline-Dream of Red Mansions.
Journey to the West: Mr. Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels calls this book "a humorous drama that restores kindness". Therefore, although it is a sudden change, it is also a confusing thing, so that gods and demons are all human beings, refined, sophisticated and cynical.
The Water Margin is not only a household name in China, but also deeply loved by people all over the world. 1759, an abridged version of Water Margin appeared in Japan. 1933, American Pearl Buck's All Men Are Brothers Within the Four Seas had a great influence. Now there are dozens of versions of Water Margin in more than a dozen languages, which are popular all over the world.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Make full use of historical materials, focus on the ups and downs of the Three Kingdoms period, focus on people's hearts, talents, strategies and tactics, explore how to consolidate political power, maintain long-term stability, and use artistic description in the novel. Revelation, praised by later generations as "the king of ambition"
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio: There are nearly 500 works, which are well written and euphemistic. After the publication of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, people rushed to write it, which was very popular and had a great influence on the later classical Chinese novel creation.
Shi Yu Yan Ming: It reflects people's thoughts and values in the Ming Dynasty, and has reached a considerable level in art, which is valued by Chinese and foreign researchers in the history of novels. This is the earliest published one of the three words.
Warning the world: it shows the social ideal and aesthetic pursuit after the middle of Ming dynasty, and also has quite high artistic achievements.
Awakening the World: It reflected citizens' thoughts, embodied the characteristics of the times, and exposed human weaknesses. It was popular at all levels of society at that time.
Surprise at the First Moment clearly reflects the thoughts and concepts of the author's time, especially the changes in social life brought by the development of commodity economy since the middle of Ming Dynasty and the author's anti-Neo-Confucianism thoughts.
A milestone in the history of China's novels. The theme covers all aspects of social life, from exposing officials' bribery, unfair trials and ruling darkness to describing men's and women's love and social and family problems.