What are the ten most famous ancient Chinese novels that shook the world?

1. Dream of the Red Mansions (also known as The Book of Stones) (Qing Dynasty) Cao Xueqin;

2. Water Margin (Ming Dynasty) Shi Nai'an;

3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Ming Dynasty) Luo Guanzhong;

4. Journey to the West (Ming Dynasty) Wu Cheng'en;

5. Mirror Flower Fate (Qing Dynasty) Li Ru Zhen;

6. History of Confucianism and Forests (Qing Dynasty) Wu Jingzi;

7. Feng Shen Yan Yi (Ming) Xu Zhonglin;

8. Liao Zhai Zhi Yi (Qing) Pu Songling;

9. The Story of an Official (Qing) Li Baojia;

10. The Story of the Warring States in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (Ming) Feng Menglong;

Works:

Meng of Red Mansions (红楼梦), is a humanistic fiction work of world influence, recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical fiction.

Meng of the Red Chamber is a work of humane fiction with world-wide influence, recognized as the pinnacle of Chinese classical fiction, the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and the masterpiece of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of the four great families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as its background, centers on the family trivia and boudoir affairs of the Jia House, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as its main line. It depicts the beauty of the human nature and tragedy of the lovers of good and evil centered around Jia Baoyu and the Twelve Haircuts of the Golden Haircuts, and praises the rebellious characters who seek for the light, and foresees the inevitable demise of the feudal society through the tragic destiny of the rebellious ones. Through the tragic fate of the rebels, it foresees the inevitable demise of feudal society and reveals the crisis of the last days of feudalism.

Water Margin is a long novel depicting the ancient peasant revolt. It graphically depicts the whole process of the peasants' revolt from its occurrence, development to its failure, y reveals the social roots of the revolt, enthusiastically glorifies the resistance struggle of the heroes of the revolt and their social ideals, and also specifically reveals the inherent historical reasons for the failure of the revolt.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first full-length historical novel in chapters, focusing on the wars of the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and reflecting the political and military struggles between the three political groups of Wei, Shu, and Wu. It is divided into three major parts: the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, and the Triple Alliance. A magnificent war scene is staged on a vast background. Luo Guanzhong blends the Thirty-six Stratagems of War into his words, both the plot and the military tactics. This book reflects the rich historical content. The names of characters, geographical names, main events and characterizations are basically the same as those of the Three Kingdoms, which are based on a fixed image and replayed, which is also the formula of historical novels. On the one hand, this book reflects the real history of the Three Kingdoms and takes care of the readers' need to wish to know the real history; on the other hand, the characters of the Three Kingdoms are exaggerated, embellished, scandalized and so on according to the actual situation of the Ming society.

The Journey to the West, one of the four great classical Chinese novels, is the first long romanticized novel of gods and demons in ancient China, which was compiled and created by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en, and is also known as The Journey to the West to Shiyu Zhuan and The Book of the Testimony of the Journey to the West. Mainly depicts the Sun Wukong, Pigsy and Monk Sha to protect the Tang Monk westward journey to obtain scriptures, the Tang Monk from the birth of the fetus to fetch the return *** encountered eighty-one difficulties, all the way to subdue the demons and subdue the devil, to turn danger into safety, and finally arrived in the Western Paradise, to obtain the true scriptures of the story. Taken from "The Poetry Story of the Three Tibetans of the Tang Dynasty fetching the scriptures" and folklore and Yuan miscellaneous dramas.

The Mirror's Edge is a long novel written by Li Ruzhen in the Qing Dynasty. The first half of the book depicts the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat, including their scripture history in the Daughter Country, the Gentleman Country, the Gutless Country and other countries. The second half of the book is about Wu Zetian's selection of talented girls for the imperial examination, and the story of Tang Xiaoshan, who was born from the Hundred Flower Fairies, and a hundred other talented girls born from various other Flower Fairies, who were successful in the examination and made a difference in the imperial court. Its magical and witty creative approach counts the scriptures and marvelously draws a splendid and colorful picture of the wheel of heaven.

The History of Confucianism, a long novel, written by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-six times. The book was written in 1749 (Qianlong fourteen years) or a little before, first to copy the world, first engraved in 1803 (Jiaqing eight years). The book is a realistic depiction of the different performances of various types of people with regard to "merit and wealth", which, on the one hand, realistically reveals the process and causes of the corrosion of human nature, and thus profoundly criticizes and mocks the corruption of the officials, the shortcomings of the imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of the rites and teachings; on the other hand, it enthusiastically praises a small number of characters who stick to their own way of guarding human nature, and thus implies that the human nature of a minority of the people is not to be protected. The author's ideals are expressed in his passionate praise of the protection of human nature by a few characters who stand up for themselves. The use of the vernacular has become more and more pure and comfortable, and the characterization of the characters is also quite deep and delicate, especially the use of superb satirical techniques, which makes the book a masterpiece of classical Chinese satirical literature. The book represents the peak of ancient Chinese satirical novels, and it creates an example of direct evaluation of real life by novels.

Feudal Yanyi, commonly known as Feudal List, and also known as The Complete Biography of the Kingdoms of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, The Outer History of King Wu's Expedition to conquer the Zhou Dynasty, and The Biography of the Feudal Gods, is also an ancient Chinese novel of gods and demons. It was written by Xu Zhonglin (or Chen Zhonglin) in the Ming Dynasty, and was written during the Longqing and Wanli periods. The whole book **** one hundred times. The archetype of "Feudal Reign of the Gods" can be traced back to the Southern Song Dynasty's "King Wu's Conquest of the Zhou Dynasty", and may also refer to the "Interpretation of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties" and "Journey to the East of the Eight Immortals of Kunlun". With the historical background of Jiang Ziya's assisting Zhou's family (King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty, and King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty) in the crusade to conquer Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, the book depicts the story of the Hierophant and Interceptor Sect of Immortals' battling with each other and their courageousness, and the story of breaking through and sealing up the gods. It contains a large number of folklore and myths. There are vivid and distinctive characters such as Jiang Ziya, Nezha, Yang Jian, etc. It ends with Jiang Ziya sealing the gods and King Wu of Zhou sealing the lords.

Liaozhai Zhiyi (聊斋志异), abbreviated as Liaozhai (聊斋), commonly known as Ghosts and Foxes (鬼狐传), is a collection of short stories in the literary language written by Pu Songling, a famous novelist of the Qing Dynasty in China. The whole book *** have 491 short stories (Zhang Youhe "Liaozhai Zhiyi will school will note will comment on the book", Zhu Qikai "full new note Liaozhai Zhiyi" for 494). The subject matter is wide and rich, and the artistic achievement is very high. The work successfully portrayed many artistic archetypes, with distinctive and vivid characters, twisted and bizarre storylines, rigorous and skillful structural layout, concise writing, and delicate descriptions, which can be regarded as the pinnacle of the short story in the literary language.

The novel was first published in the late Qing Dynasty in the book The Story of an Official, a condemnatory novel written by Li Bo Yuan, the head of Nanting Ting. The novel was first serialized in the Chen issued "world prosperity newspaper", *** five 60, is China's first modern newspaper serialized and achieved a social sensational effect of the long chapter book. It consists of more than 30 relatively independent official stories linked together, involving the Qing government from the emperor, down to the Zuo miscellaneous minor officials, and so on, creating a modern novel to criticize the trend of reality.

The Chronicle of the Warring States of the Eastern Zhou (东周列国志), written by Feng Menglong (冯梦龙), a novelist of the late Ming Dynasty, is an ancient Chinese historical novel. Written in the ancient vernacular, the novel mainly depicts the history of more than five hundred years from the period of King Xuan of the Western Zhou until the unification of the six states by Qin Shi Huang.