Which dynasty was the peak of China's ancient classical Chinese novels?

The answer upstairs was copied from Baidu Encyclopedia, with no technical content. In fact, the historical stage of the development of ancient classical Chinese in general classical literature has indeed been roughly mentioned in the upstairs answer, but according to the graduate version of ancient literature textbook published by Peking University, China's real classical Chinese novels should have appeared from the Han Dynasty, not the pre-Qin period mentioned upstairs. However, there should be only one time for ancient classical Chinese novels to reach the climax, and that is the prosperous Tang Dynasty. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the novels circulated among the people were basically in the form of classical Chinese, and the scope of circulation expanded unprecedentedly. In the late Tang and Song Dynasties, vernacular novels began to shake the position of classical Chinese novels because vernacular Chinese appeared more and more in folk writing, which was the decline period of classical Chinese novels. The idea that the Qing Dynasty was the climax upstairs is actually wrong from an academic point of view. Because in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, although there were excellent classical Chinese novels such as Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, in fact, in the era of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, vernacular novels have greatly replaced the status of classical Chinese novels, so it can no longer be regarded as the peak period. So now the academic circles think that the peak of classical Chinese novels is in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the representative works should be Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying, Bai Xingjian's Biography of Li Wa and Li's Biography of Liu Yi. But today, the highest historical achievement is Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. (Note: The success of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio cannot be explained only from a literary perspective, so although it does not belong to the peak period of classical Chinese novels, it is still the most successful classical Chinese novels. )