Introduction to note novels

Notebook novel: It is a short story with notes. Features: short space and complicated content. Notebook novels began to appear in Wei and Jin Dynasties. According to Lu Xun's viewpoint, academic circles generally divided them into two main types: "strange novels" and "strange novels". In a broad sense, it refers to all works written in classical Chinese, such as strange stories, legends, miscellaneous notes, anecdotes, biographies and essays. , a wide range of content, such as astronomy, geography, David Zhang, plants, insects and fish, customs, academic research, ghosts and gods, erotic legends, jokes and anecdotes. The novel Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is basically influenced by the style of historical books, flaunting the authenticity of its notes and writing them as a historian, so it is not a conscious novel creation. In terms of artistic expression, the storyline is mostly a straight notebook, which lacks the description of the character's form and psychology, and there is no particularly extravagant plot development. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were no fewer than 3,000 kinds of ancient note novels in China, which were of great historical value and a huge cultural heritage.