Why do China's four classical novels have such great influence?

Short stories are like sketches. No matter how well written and talented, it is also a sketch. After all, it's hard to have a masterpiece atmosphere.

Short stories are difficult to compare with novels in literariness and narrative difficulty.

The four classic novels are not only magnificent in structure, gorgeous in writing and fascinating in stories, but also familiar with the characters or stories in their works, which have influenced countless generations. Its influence in Asia is also great. Japan and South Korea next door are hardcore fans of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West. On the contrary, the literary works of other countries are rarely comparable to our four classic novels.

Except A Dream of Red Mansions, three of the other four classical novels were actually not written by one person. They have been handed down orally by the Han people, and folk storytellers have undergone years of artistic processing. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Shi Naian, Luo Guanzhong and Wu Cheng'en, well-known and versatile talents, were collected and sorted carefully for more than ten years before they were published and passed down through the ages. It can be said that this is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Han people and the pride of the Han people.

A Dream of Red Mansions is very strange, because Cao Xueqin's own family background is very rich and brilliant, and he is immersed in writing books. The book almost covers China people's diet, furniture, politics, officialdom and family culture, and the title of "the first wonderful book in the world" is not covered.

Cao Xueqin's own book review "every word is like blood, and ten years' hard work is extraordinary", which shows how hard this book was written.