Explanation of Nouns in Love Novels

Love Story is one of China's classical vernacular novels, also known as love story and love letter. It is a novel with the main feature of "imitating the differences of human feelings and the world, preparing to write the karma of joys and sorrows"

The so-called state of the world refers to the whole social situation and various social contradictions and conflicts, and it is also the social atmosphere and social atmosphere at the macro level; The so-called human feelings refer to subtle emotions, psychological wishes and ideals that affect and even determine how people deal with various contradictions and interpersonal relationships, that is, people's secret spiritual world in a specific environment at the micro level.

The appearance of love stories can be traced back to before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but from the concept of "love letters about love" popular in the critical circles in the late Ming Dynasty, love stories mainly refer to novels with secularized content and popular language after the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Popular in the Ming Dynasty. Since Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Novels, the academic circles generally refer to the novels describing secular human feelings.

The Historical Evolution of "Love Novels"

The love stories in Ming and Qing dynasties are mainly about love and marriage, family disputes, or extensive descriptions of social life, or focusing on mocking literati, officialdom and brothels, with rich and colorful contents.

Love stories mainly describe daily life. In fact, China ancient literature did not attach importance to love themes, but now we see many love themes, which are mainly searched out by modern people according to their own preferences. There are many descriptions of love in Ming and Qing novels, but they are of little significance. The most famous novels about the world are Jin Ping Mei and A Dream of Red Mansions.