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Classification of fantasy novels

Xianxia novels can be understood as "chivalry+immortals", that is, martial arts novels and characters pursue self-cultivation, pay attention to traditional culture and integrate with martial arts novels through experience. Fantasy novel-style imagination is more chivalrous and has the' moral spirit' of chivalrous culture.

The theme of Xian Xia's novels is relatively narrow, mainly divided into two trends: martial arts and romance, and the readers are also different. The famous novels include Zhu Xian, The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan, Doubt of the Sword, The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man, The Legend of the Sword and the Chivalrous Man and the official series of Endless Lantern. The novel of fixing truth is the largest category in the network fantasy novel.

The theme of the novels of fixing truth comes from the development of Xianxia novels, Shenmo novels and martial arts novels, some of which are mixed with realistic online pop culture and western classical culture. However, like Xian Xia's novels, it is a new novel genre developed according to the local Taoist cultivation culture in China, so some people say that it is a pair of brothers with Xian Xia's novels, and some of Xian Xia's novels are really difficult to distinguish from Xiuzhen's novels.

Compared with Xian Xia's novels, Xiuzhen's novels pay great attention to the description of cultivation realm, and are divided into different types according to different novels. Generally speaking, the protagonist reaches a higher level through (similar to) Taoist secret cultivation.

The greatest feature of the novel of fixing truth is the description of the level of cultivation. This is the biggest difference from Xian Xia's novels. The novels of Xiuzhen are often more illusory and mysterious than Xian Xia's novels. The movement is the ancient god, the catastrophe of the Three Realms, and even the strange continent, time travel, and Star Wars. Because the subject matter is basically unconstrained, it is more easily accepted by young people. It is not found in the dictionary, and there is no accurate definition in the Chinese concept. After checking the relevant information, most people think that fantasy can be interpreted as "legend". What is a legend? From the perspective of China's cultural history, Ci Hai said that legends are stories with bizarre plots or extraordinary behaviors of characters. From the perspective of western cultural history, it is "a long story poem in medieval European knight literature, mainly describing knight's love and ranger's adventures". When it comes to fantasy, people often associate it with elves, dwarves and vampires. In fact, this is just a narrow expansion of the concept of Nordic mythology. In Europe and America, Dungeons and Dragons (usually abbreviated as D&; D, a table TRPG game, has played an important role in promoting the development of fantasy novel. Its perfect world structure, class, race, monsters and other settings provide fantasy novel with the most natural materials. Fantasy novel, who gets up early, is often a game process (players call it running a group) in which the plot is added. classify

Magic campus fantasy, self-cultivation, blood-sucking affection into love, eastern fantasy dynasty hegemony.

Online game novels with different continents, different skills, super powers, reincarnation of ancient myths and time travel.

Among them, ancient mythology, western fantasy and eastern fantasy are the most widely known.