The four masterpieces historical status

â’ˆ "Dream of Red Mansions" is the pinnacle of China's classical novels, known as the encyclopedia of the last days of the building;

🙂 "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is China's first vernacular full-length historical novels, but also China's chapter novels of the founding of the highest achievement of historical novels;

"Water Margin" is China's first novel reflecting the peasants' revolt, with its outstanding artistic descriptions of the techniques, comprehensively showing the whole process of a peasant uprising from the occurrence of the development until the end. It is the first novel in China to reflect the peasants' uprising, and with its outstanding artistic depiction, it comprehensively shows the whole process of a peasants' uprising from its occurrence, development to its end, and profoundly exposes the darkness and corruption of the feudal society as well as the sinful nature of the ruling class, which is of great historical research value;

â’‹ Journey to the West created a new field of divine and magic novels in China's novel history, and made divine and magic novels reach maturity as a kind of independent genre, thus establishing an independent status of divine and magic novels in long novels. The Journey to the West creates a new field in the history of Chinese fiction, maturing the novel of gods and demons as an independent genre, thus establishing the independent status of the novel of gods and demons in the long novels, and is the pinnacle of the romantic works of gods and demons in China.