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In the past century, the main forms of China's novels originated from storytelling tradition, Song edition and Yuan Zaju, which began to be concrete in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and developed in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Zhang Hui's novels are divided into chapters and chapters. There may be a wedge in front of the text. Each chapter has a summary of the main idea and an outline of the plot. The summary consists of two sentences, which is neat and concise. Every time, it often begins with a poem, with a narrative in the middle, more poetry and rhyme. The function of poetry is to summarize or arouse the content, evaluate the characters and render the atmosphere.

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At present, our more common novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern times are generally classical Chinese novels, such as the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Dialect novels, such as Han Ziyun's Biography of Flowers on the Sea in Qing Dynasty, mostly use Wu dialect; Tanci novels, such as Tao Zhenhuai's Rain Flower in the Sky; Zhong Baoluo's novels in Qing Dynasty, such as Yanshan Nighttalk, etc.

The representative works of Zhang Hui's novels are known as Four Great Classical Novels in ancient times and Four Great Classical Novels in modern times. Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, Water Margin by Ming Dynasty, The Journey to the West and Jin Ping Mei by Wu Cheng'en, Scholars by Wu in Qing Dynasty, Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin, etc.

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