What is fantasy novel?

The understanding of fantasy novel in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China is as follows:

"Social fantasy novel" appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, which is an idealistic literature as opposed to realistic literature. The novel focuses on showing readers the human social form imagined by the author. The publication and dissemination of "social fantasy novels" are closely related to the publishing laws and regulations in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Despair is a fantasy, and it is impossible to escape despair from the realistic environment in the late Qing Dynasty. Scholars began to hope that the utopia in fantasy could open up a modern peach blossom garden on the nonexistent island of Chushan.

Modern introduction:

Different from fantasy novel, fantasy novel is not confined to China, but also exists abroad, and is often confused with fantasy novel. Even Harry Potter is classified as fantasy novel. People trace the history of fantasy novels back to1Greek mythology at the beginning of the 9th century or even earlier.

The representative works of foreign fantasy novels are The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by British writer Tolkien. When Taiwan Province translator Zhu translated it into Chinese, he pioneered the term "fantasy novel". Since then, the term "fantasy novel" has become popular in the Chinese world. Zhu founded Taiwan Province Fantasy Culture and Art Foundation.

There is no strict definition of fantasy novel. Xu Qingwen of Taiwan Province Province wrote the opening declaration for Muse Fantasy Museum: "We need imagination, not to teach us to escape from reality and drown in nothingness, but to encourage us to change our horizons and broaden our minds. The unique mysterious nature and infinite fantasy space of fantasy stories are the source of imagination. "

This passage was once thought to give a broad definition to "fantasy novel". In my opinion, fantasy novel's characteristic is "strangeness", which runs through the novel with magical, bizarre, bizarre and bizarre fantasies. This fantasy has nothing to do with science.