What are the famous novels in Qing Dynasty?

From the early Qing Dynasty to the Qianlong period, it was the heyday of the novel. The works that represent democratic tendencies and truly describe social reality are the mainstream of novels in this period, and A Dream of Red Mansions is its highest representative. From the Qianlong period to the Opium War period, that is, Jiaqing and Daoguang period, a large number of works divorced from reality, advocating famous religion and karma appeared, and novel creation presented a lazy and boring scene. From the early Qing Dynasty to the late Qianlong period (1644 ~ 1795), novel creation has made great progress compared with the previous generation in terms of quantity and quality, content and form, style and genre. Historical Romance and the legend of heroes were particularly prominent in the early Qing Dynasty.

His important works include Water Margin, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yue Biography and Fairy Biography. , is about history and historical figures, showing the rebellious consciousness of the oppressed people and nations in society at that time.

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a collection of China's classical short stories, which inherits the fine traditions of the Six Dynasties and the legends of the Tang Dynasty and is the highest peak of China's classical novels.

The Scholars absorbed the nutrition of the satirical art of ancient literature and showed a broad picture of social life. It is a classic of China's ancient satirical literature.

The novel A Dream of Red Mansions describes the decline of an aristocratic family, reflecting the irreconcilable conflict between young men and women's demands for personal freedom and feudal system at that time, and flashing the initial democratic spirit. It is the greatest realistic novel in ancient China.

In addition, the novel The Wizard of Oz and the story novel The Cup of the World also reflect real life to varying degrees.

During the twenty years from Jiaqing to Daoguang (1796 ~ 1840), there were historical romances and the legend of heroes's Biography of the Tang Dynasty, The Romance of Yang Baodi in Wanhua Building, etc., but their ideological and artistic qualities were not as good as those of previous similar works. The continuation of A Dream of Red Mansions, this kind of works all want to change the tragic spirit of A Dream of Red Mansions and make Jia Lin have a happy reunion, which reflects the subversion of the feudal traditional literary thought to A Dream of Red Mansions and is a retrogression.

"Dangkou Zhi" takes the continuation of the water margin as a signboard, with the opposite intention to the water margin, showing the author's political stance of hating peasant uprisings and maintaining feudal rule.

Good or innovative works in this period include Green Peony, Legend of Leifeng Pagoda, Full Biography of Fenzhuanglou, Romance of Twin Phoenix, Mirror Flower Edge and so on. The characteristics of novels in Qing Dynasty are significantly different from those in Ming Dynasty. Most novels in Ming Dynasty have an evolution process from folklore, drama, script to literati compilation. Qing dynasty novels are different. Writers choose materials, ideas and descriptions according to their own lives and experiences, and fully express their personal wishes and ideals in their works. They are also mature in structure, narration and characterization. General works are original.

A Dream of Red Mansions has completely broken the traditional thinking and writing, and is the most outstanding representative of novels in this period.