The Development History and Characteristics of China's Classical Vernacular Novels

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the two different classical literary styles, novel and poem, have shown a trend of mutual infiltration and mutual suggestion, that is, literati began to consciously integrate poetic rhyme into the creation of classical Chinese and vernacular novels, thus forming a fixed expression mode of China's classical novels. This exhibition of world cultural wonders with distinctive national cultural characteristics has multi-level and deep historical origins, such as social and cultural background, writers' aesthetic taste, readers' acceptance psychology and so on. The poems and songs in the novel have the characteristics of wide subject matter, rigorous genre and proper handling. In the novel, they have played many unique aesthetic functions, such as highlighting the theme, expressing rationality, rendering the atmosphere, setting off the image, depicting the characters, analyzing the soul, running through the pulse line, unfolding the plot and so on. This literary expression is of great significance to the development and prosperity of novels, the spread of poems and people's appreciation and interpretation at that time.