Yu Yue was an influential scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. He is good at studying Confucian classics, poems, novels and operas, and has a wide collection of notes, including precious materials of China's academic history and literary history. He is good at poetry and official script, and he is knowledgeable. He wrote many notes about hundred schools of thought and China's exegetics and novels, and he worked tirelessly all his life. His main works include Small Gossip, Notes on Youtai Xiange, Miscellaneous Notes on Tea Room, etc. The series is "Spring in the Hall", with a total of 500 volumes. An important contribution to popular novels is the revision of the three chivalrous men and five meanings, which makes this novel widely circulated. Zhao wrote in 1956 in the preface to the three chivalrous men and five righteous men, saying that the three chivalrous men and five righteous men were originally called the biography of loyal and righteous men, which appeared in the fifth year of Guangxu (1879). Yu Yue read this book for the first time in 1889, and thought it was "extremely irrelevant" to replace civet cats with princes for the first time, so he deleted it with reference to The History of Song Dynasty and Memories. He also thinks that there are not only three chivalrous men in the book, but "Nan Xia, Bei Xia, Shi Ding Shuang Xia, Xiao Xia Ai Hu" already has five chivalrous men. The black fox is smart, and the teacher of Xiao Xia is also; In his hundredth reply, the young Zhuge Shen Zhongyuan said that he nurtured chivalry from the game. But what about these two people who are not chivalrous? Counting Liu Qing, Lu Bin, Lu Ying and others, they have already won the Seven Chivalrous Men. "It was renamed Elvis Presley and circulated in parallel with Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses. This reflects Yu Yue's view on academic novels, which has certain reference significance for the creation of historical novels.
His artistic research on novels is also exquisite. Zhao also said that Yu Yue also had an excellent metaphor for the critical features of this book: "The story is novel, the brushwork is bold and unrestrained, and the description is both implicit and implicit. Just like Pockmarked Liu said, "Hit a shop", when there was no one in the shop at first, suddenly, with a bang, all the empty cylinders in the shop could be heard; Color in leisure is full of vitality. With such pen and ink, you can make a storytelling novel; Commenting on novels in this way is another kind of pen and ink between heaven and earth. " If someone writes a history of China's popular novels, Yu Yue must be mentioned.