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China's famous literary novels?

There are: A Dream of Red Mansions, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Journey to the West, The Scholars and so on.

1. A Dream of Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions, an ancient China chapter novel, also known as The Story of the Stone, is listed as the first classical Four Great Classical Novels in China and is generally considered to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty.

with the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, and Jia Baoyu, the rich son, as the perspective, the novel depicts the life of a group of beautiful women in boudoir whose manners and knowledge are beyond men's needs, showing the true beauty of human nature and tragedy. It can be said that it is an epic work that shows the beauty of women and the various social situations in ancient China from all angles.

The version of A Dream of Red Mansions can be divided into two systems: the 12-cycle "Cheng Ben" and the 8-cycle "Fat Ben". Cheng Ben is a printed edition printed by Cheng Weiyuan, and the fat edition is an early manuscript copied and evaluated by Zhi Yanzhai in different periods. The fat book is the basic book of the process book.

2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The full name of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), which is one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China and the first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel in China. The author is Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.

After the publication of The Popular Romance of The Three Kingdoms, there were many versions such as Jiajing Renwu Edition. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Mao Zonggang reorganized the Romance of The Three Kingdoms, revised its wording and changed its poems.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the historical situation of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, focusing on war, and tells the story of the scuffle between the warlords in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the political and military struggles between Wei, Shu and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty.

reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions in the Three Kingdoms period, and summarizes the historical changes of this era, shaping a group of all-powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

The book can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow Scarf Uprising, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, Competing among the Heroes, Three Kingdoms' Struggle and Three Kingdoms' Return to Jin. On the vast historical stage, magnificent war scenes were staged. Luo Guanzhong, the author, combines the 36 strategies of the art of war between the lines, which has both plots and strategies of the art of war.

3. The Water Margin

The Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels in China, is a chapter-style novel with the Sung River Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty as the main story background and belongs to the heroic legend in type. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing journals have one or both of Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.

The whole book artistically reflects the whole process of Sung River Uprising in China history, from its occurrence, development to its failure, by describing the grand story that Liangshan heroes resisted oppression, Shui Bo Liangshan grew stronger and was recruited by the Song Dynasty, and fought for the Song Dynasty after being recruited.

profoundly revealed the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praised the uprising heroes' resistance and their social ideals, and specifically revealed the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

4. The Journey to the West

The Journey to the West is the first romantic chapter-and-verse novel of the ancient China. The Journey to the West, a hundred copies of the existing Ming periodicals, has no author's signature. Scholars in Qing Dynasty, such as Wu Yuqian, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

this novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures", and through the artistic processing of the author, it profoundly depicts the social reality at that time. The book mainly describes the story that the Monkey King met Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai Longma after he was born and made a scene in the Heavenly Palace, went west to learn from the scriptures, conquered the demons all the way, went through eighty-one difficult, finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the five saints came true.

5. The Scholars

The Scholars is a novel written by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty. It was written in the 14th year of Qianlong (1749) or a little earlier, and was handed down from generation to generation with a manuscript, and was first engraved in the 8th year of Jiaqing (183).

Fifty-six chapters of the book depict different expressions of various people about "fame and wealth" with realism. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the erosion of human nature, thus deeply criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucracy and the hypocrisy of imperial examinations at that time.

On the one hand, it warmly praises the protection of human nature made by a few characters in the way of sticking to themselves, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese in the novel has become more and more proficient, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the superb irony, which makes the book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature.