One of China's four classical novels, Shi Naian's novel in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, is a chapter-style novel with the Sung River Uprising as the main story background, which belongs to the heroic legend in genre. The Water Margin is one of the earliest Zhang Hui vernacular novels in the history of China.
2. Journey to the West
Written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty. As the first romantic novel in ancient China, it is a pioneering work of magical realism. The classic bridges are: the Monkey King made a scene in the Heavenly Palace, Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon was the true and false Monkey King, outsmarted Hong Haier, borrowed a banana fan from Gaolaozhuang to collect Bajie, collected sand monk from Liushahe, and Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon.
3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
One of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel. Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the history of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty. The classic bridge has a hero who cooks wine, three vows in Taoyuan, a crushing defeat in Huarong Road, riding a thousand miles alone, five customs and six generals.
4. A Dream of Red Mansions
China's ancient novel, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, takes Jia Baoyu, a rich son, as the perspective, and takes the love and marriage tragedy of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, depicting the lives of a group of boudoir beauties whose manners and knowledge are beyond men's needs, showing the true beauty and tragedy of human nature.
5. The West Chamber
China's Drama Script of Yuan Dynasty, written by Wang Shifu. The hero and heroine in the book are Zhang Junrui and Cui Yingying. Mainly wrote a story about a pair of lovers Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying who broke through the trap and finally got married.
6. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio
The Collection of Short Stories in Classical Chinese by Pu Songling, a famous novelist in China in the Qing Dynasty, is the pinnacle of short stories in classical Chinese. Talk more about foxes, immortals, ghosts and demons, so as to summarize the social relations at that time and reflect the social features of China in the17th century.
7. Scholars
Wu's novels in Qing Dynasty represented the peak of China's ancient satirical novels, which initiated the direct evaluation of real life with novels. It is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. The Scholars describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the stereotyped imperial examination system, reflecting the corruption of the secular atmosphere at that time.
8. Peony Pavilion
Tang Xianzu was a great playwright in Ming Dynasty and one of the four classical dramas in China. Du Liniang, the heroine, is one of the most lovely girls in China's classical operas.
9. Historical records
Sima Qian, a famous historian in the Western Han Dynasty, wrote a biographical history book, which is the first biographical general history in the history of China. It was listed as the first of the "Twenty-four History" and was praised by Lu Xun as "the swan song of historians and the rhyme" Li Sao ". The book * * * 130 volume, including ten tables, eight books, twelve biographies, thirty biographies, and seventy biographies, * * * is about 526,500 words, which records the history of more than 3,000 years from the time of the Yellow Emperor (about 3000 BC) to the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (BC 122 BC) in the ancient legend of China.
10, looking for God
Searching for the Gods is a collection of novels that records magical and weird stories in ancient folklore, and it is a book written by Gan Bao in Jin Dynasty that records immortals and ghosts. Most stories reflect the thoughts and feelings of ancient people to some extent.