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What are the four classical Four Great Classical Novels books in China?

1, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four classical novels in China, and its full name is the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, it is China's first long historical romance novel.

2. The Journey to the West, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is the first romance novel written by China and Wu Cheng'en in ancient Ming Dynasty. This paper mainly tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai who went through all the hardships to protect Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures in the Western Heaven during the reign of Emperor Taizong. Together with the hardships of Tang Priest from birth to Buddhist scriptures (eighty-one difficulties), they turned evil spirits all the way, saved the day, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures.

3. The Water Margin is one of China's four classical novels. This paper describes the story of 108 hero led by Song Jiang in Liangshan Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was called up after Juyi and went to war everywhere. The Water Margin is also one of the most epic works in China literature.

4. A Dream of Red Mansions is China's first classical Four Great Classical Novels, a novel written by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty. In the early days, only the first 80 manuscripts were circulated, formerly known as the Story of the Stone. Cheng Weiyuan collected the last 40 manuscripts and invited Gao E to coordinate the publication of all 120 manuscripts entitled A Dream of Red Mansions. There are also versions such as "Yu Jin Yuan" and "Zhi Yanzhai's Comment on Stone".