Ministry of Education's required reading list for senior high schools.

The required reading books of the Ministry of Education for senior high schools include: local China, A Dream of Red Mansions, China's view of ancient literature, etc.

1. Native China. Native China is a work by Mr Fei Xiaotong who studies rural society in China. This book consists of 65,438+02 articles. The author summarizes and analyzes the main features of grass-roots society in China with simple and popular language, which fully shows the face of grass-roots society in China.

2. China's View on Ancient Literature. Compared with junior high school, the difficulty of classical Chinese in senior high school has been greatly improved, so students need to start to consolidate the foundation of classical Chinese in the first stage of senior high school.

Guan Zhi of Ancient Chinese Prose is the representative work of China's prose in past dynasties. It is a classical Chinese enlightenment reading since the Qing Dynasty. Together with 300 Tang poems, it is called the "double wall" of China's ancient poetry anthology, and it is praised by Lu Xun as "Zhaoming Poetry Anthology", which is as beautiful as a fairy. It is a very good reading bibliography to improve the level of classical Chinese.

3. A Dream of Red Mansions. Cao Xueqin is the greatest and most complicated writer in the literary history of China, and A Dream of Red Mansions is also the greatest and most complicated work in the literary history of China.

A Dream of Red Mansions centers on the love and marriage tragedy between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and describes the rise and fall of a representative aristocratic family at that time, as well as the tragic fate of many characters centered on Jia Baoyu and a group of women in the Red Chamber. The youth, love, the beauty of life and all kinds of such beauty they represent have been destroyed.

It reflects the historical fate of young men and women with a certain awakening consciousness under the bondage of feudal system and feudal parents, writes the truth of life indulging in pain and the same yearning for liberation, and writes the contradictory emotional world and realistic life experience.

A Dream of Red Mansions is also the highest artistic expression of China's classical novels.