What are the twin peaks in Qing Dynasty novels besides Dream of Red Mansions?

The Twin Peaks of Novels in Qing Dynasty —— The short story Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and the famous novel A Dream of Red Mansions

Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio creatively inherits the excellent traditions of Wei Jin and tang legends, and can write strange stories in the way of tang legends, which not only reflects rich social life, but also has high artistic attainments. It is the best short classical Chinese novel in China. In the ideological content of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, as the author said, "Every little makes a mickle, and the ambition of seclusion continues in vain;" The floating white pen is just a lonely work; It is a collection of short essays expressing ideals and people's wishes, with some sustenance. From an artistic point of view, realism and romanticism can be combined together, profoundly expressing the contradiction between real life and beautiful ideals; Secondly, he created a series of distinctive characters based on the realistic foundation and living environment, such as the breeze, cheerful and naive Ying Ning, and Xiao Xie who didn't know the joys and sorrows. Thirdly, he is good at describing details and integrating characters, language and life.

A Dream of Red Mansions is an immortal masterpiece of China's ancient novels, which reflects the whole social life of the Qing Dynasty and is called "the mirror of the times". Cao Xueqin is good at choosing the material of life, depicting the social life day after day at that time as if he were in the scene, and shaping typical characters in various ways. Characters are divided into primary and secondary aspects, and personality is divided into primary and secondary aspects. The main characters depict them from different angles through different plots, and have a profound focus on different levels. Secondary characters grasp the key personality and highlight it through specific plots; A dream of red mansions is also good at combining the inner feelings of characters with the development process and natural environment of the story, setting off the characters and rendering the plot; The novel also highlights the psychological description of the inner activities of the characters, which is detailed and embodies the dialectics of psychology. Structurally, it is more complete, grand and rigorous than previous novels. Taking Baodai's love as the main line and Jia's house as the living space, the book intricately links all kinds of characters and events together, as if it were as complicated and colorful as life itself. Its language has reached the peak of ancient literature, concise and pure, accurate and vivid, simple and colorful.

A Dream of Red Mansions inherits the national literature in many aspects, and also has a lot of influence on later literature. It is the highest achievement of realistic literature and the unattainable peak of the development of China's ancient novels. Mr. Lu Xun said: "Since the publication of A Dream of Red Mansions, traditional thinking and writing methods have been broken."