Are there any classic historical novels? Please recommend it. There is a shortage of books recently. (those who can learn some historical knowledge)

Li Ling's long series of historical novels-full of historical flavor, involving many historical events in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Tired of reading fast food literature, you can adjust it for a change.

1 Fall in love with the countryside (Li Ling's long historical novel series)

Fallen City is the first part of the famous writer Li Ling's historical novel series Hundred Years of Glory. Looking for clues from the historical traces of the "Dengzhou mutiny" in Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty, the novel vividly describes the fate track of Dengse Governor Sun, who used his official career to reuse, put his talents to the imperial court to be suspicious and crowded out, and went to Diantian step by step to solve problems, sell women for a raise, kill children to solve dangers, and stop killing people. Sun's personal life experience of ups and downs in his official career reflected the official career of traitors and greed at that time. Battlefield frontier fortress, between Scylla and Charybdis, to deal with social strange talk. The novel profoundly reveals the historical law that heroes are useless and the building will fall down, indicating the inevitable trend that the Qing Dynasty will replace the Ming Dynasty. In the novel, there are both desolate and tragic battlefield wars, complicated and dangerous palace contradictions, and more penetrating, thrilling and complicated hardships and love. The novel is exquisite in writing, rigorous in structure, ups and downs in plot, magnificent and full of vivid characters. It is the painstaking work of the writer for many years.

2 Young Emperor (Li Ling's long historical novel series)

This is a long historical novel describing the political career and love life of the first generation of the emperor shunzhi after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. After the novel was published, it won the third Mao Dun Literature Award. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, social unrest and contradictions were intertwined. Influenced by China culture since childhood, Shunzhi advocated Confucianism, attached importance to literati, learned from China customs, advocated "the integration of Manchu and Han", abandoned "diligent soldiers and silent soldiers", stopped enclosure, rectified official management, stopped paying three salaries, relaxed the law of escaping from the people, and rested with the people. However, there were many obstacles inside and outside the imperial court, and the Manchu people were dear to each other, so they planned to fight in the secret room. Shunzhi, who is extremely dignified in the Dragon Court, is a sentimental emperor. Despite the opposition of his mother and courtiers, he insisted on loving Wu Yunzhu, who had become his sister-in-law. Two hearts are committed to each other, know each other, fall in love, and feel the earth moving. Love and hate. Life and death, power struggle, swords and shadows, overlapping and interweaving. Finally, my beloved son was killed and Princess Dong passed away. Shunzhi lost all hope and tried to escape into an empty door, but unfortunately he contracted smallpox and died young. Ms. Li Ling, a famous writer of historical novels, galloped in the literary sky with history as her wing. The grand historical background is integrated with the traditional narrative art, with ups and downs and twists and turns. The language is refined and elegant, fluent and delicate. Critics once praised: historical novels are rare masterpieces, profound and dignified, and magnificent. This series also includes three other books: A Dream of Breaking the River, The Fall of the Country, and Twilight Drum and Morning Bell.

3 Twilight Drum and Morning Bell (Li Ling's long historical novel series)

"Twilight Drum and Morning Bell-Young Kangxi" is the third in a series of "Hundred Years of Brilliance" historical novels by Li Ling, a famous writer and winner of the third Mao Dun Literature Prize. The novel takes the young Kangxi as the protagonist. Kangxi acceded to the throne at the age of seven, and four assistant ministers were in charge of state affairs. Under the pretext of restoring patriarchal clan system, they almost completely overthrew the emperor shunzhi's reform measures, especially assistant minister Ao Bai, who was crony, domineering and seized power, killed dissidents and won the northern throne, resulting in political chaos and boiling public resentment. Kangxi studied history books hard and made great efforts to govern, and gradually became dissatisfied with the perverse behavior of the minister of Fuzheng and his puppet situation. With the guidance and help of his grandmother, Empress Dowager, Kangxi and Ao Bai waged a complicated and fierce struggle. In the third year of his reign, Ao Bai's regicide plot, which was only 16 or 17 years old, was exposed, and Kangxi captured it in one fell swoop and completely regained the imperial power. The novel takes the land exchange dispute between Huang Zhengqi and Zhengbaiqi, the dispute between Huang Li and Xi Li, the case-solving of Ming history and other major historical events as the background, highlighting the contest between the royal family and the auxiliary ministers. The wily of Empress Dowager Tai, the great wisdom and courage of the young Emperor Kangxi, the intrigue between the emperor and the assistant minister, and Ao Bai's arbitrariness are all fully demonstrated in the unfolding of these great events. The author's creative characteristics are more about touching history with humanity, being loyal to and above historical facts, and showing the experience of humanity in the rendering description of historical facts: in the face of political and power struggles, the beautiful things in humanity are gradually eroded, cut off and abandoned. The throne of young Kangxi was threatened again and again. To keep the throne, we must fool many people, including many innocent people. Every case needs a dead man. Every time Kangxi dies, he has to endure the torment of conscience and abandon the beautiful side of human nature in pain, including friendship, love and kindness ... Kangxi must be a good emperor according to his grandmother's requirements, and every step towards the supreme imperial power will deepen the pain of inner tearing. The novel is large-scale, ups and downs, based on characters and major events. It vividly shows the court life and social features in the early years of Kangxi, and creates many characters with complex and outstanding personalities, which has high literary value. It is a rare and excellent historical novel. This series also includes: the son of heaven, the fall of the country, and the dream of breaking the river.

4 dreams break the river (Li Ling's long historical novel series)

Broken Jiang Meng is another masterpiece of historical novels by Li Ling, a famous historical novelist and winner of the third Mao Dun Literature Prize. Taking the Opium War as the historical background and depicting the fate of Kunqu artists as the center, the novel writes a history of the struggle of ordinary people in the national crisis in the United States in history, showing the love legend of a generation of famous products intertwined with the ups and downs of the times. The novel takes the first Opium War as the background of the characters' fate from a brand-new perspective, writes the ups and downs of the little people's fate in the big background, and excavates the profound connotation of history from the feelings of the little people. Liu Tianshou, the hero of the novel, was born in a Kunqu family, and suffered unbearable physical and mental torture since he was a child: as a "human", he was born with rich gifts and had to practice his skills hard to make money for his father's last wish; When she became a famous Kunqu star, she found herself a daughter, but she was jealous and didn't give her everything a woman should have. The rich boy loves her, but there is something hidden, which makes her exhausted; My beloved brother died because of this, but I took care of my second brother but I couldn't arouse the spark of her love; The hero who secretly loves him is his brother-in-law, who died heroically in the war; The lovers who can finally love each other and know each other are the military doctors who invaded the British army. ...

Detailed description:

The novel describes the war with originality, briefly describes the opium destruction in Humen, which readers are familiar with, and focuses on the history of Lin Zexu's dismissal and Qishan's signing of treaty of nanking. Based on the historical background, such as the Battle of Guangzhou, the Fall of Dinghai, and the Zhenjiang Massacre, the novel reflects the little-known historical truth of the Opium War in depth, allowing people to see the profound disaster of the Chinese nation 160 years ago from the historical facts of blood and fire. As a researcher of Qing history, the author's grasp and understanding of history is quite profound and thought-provoking. The tragic war of human nature, the domineering and overbearing of the invaders, the closed door of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, the arrogance and fragility of Yelang, and the ill-fated fate of the people in the war have all been described calmly, opening and closing to a certain extent, which makes readers feel the same. The inevitable law of history and the fate changes of ordinary people, the justice of national interests and the cruelty of war, and the coexistence of national dignity and personal feelings are intertwined into a shocking national epic, which makes people feel sad to read. After The Son of Heaven, The Story of National subjugation and The Morning Bell, Li Ling carefully produced this touching novel for three years. In his works, the author shows his profound literary foundation, extensive knowledge of sociology and history, and the verve and ability to build a masterpiece, which is worth writing.