What does a romance novel mean?

Romance novel is an old novel of China, also known as narrow evil novel or gifted scholar and beautiful woman novel.

A literary genre that focuses on telling the love of the opposite sex and reflects the psychology, state, things and other social life of love through complete stories and specific environmental descriptions.

There are many types of romance novels, which are mainly divided into ancient themes and modern themes. There are different themes such as rebirth, crossing, anti-crossing, science fiction, house fighting, palace fighting and fantasy.

The development of the genre of romance novels is as follows:

? Love legend

The source of today's romance novels is the love legend in Tang Dynasty. The love legend is a branch of the legendary novel, and it is also the greatest achievement in the legendary novel.

The mature symbol of novels is tang legends's novels, and its mature representatives are "three love legends": Yingying Biography, Li Wa Biography and Huo Xiaoyu Biography. It can be seen that the ancestor love legend of romance novels has almost become synonymous with novels.

Unfortunately, after the Tang and Song Dynasties, love legends gradually declined, and Zhang Hui novels became the mainstream. Readers are no longer dominated by women, but by men, just like love legends in Tang and Song Dynasties.

? mandarin duck and butterfly

In the early years of the Republic of China, the literati in Shanghai Shili foreign exchange were lost and decadent, addicted to bars, dances and political dramas, and the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, which was established by chance, became a monument to romance novels.

In fact, the blood of Yuanyang Butterfly School comes down in one continuous line with romance novels, but it is greatly influenced by Shanghai culture. Since then, romance novels have formed an independent genre after the romance of the Tang Dynasty. Yuanyang Butterfly School mainly focuses on love novels of talented people and beautiful women, such as the Soul of the Jade Pear by Xu Zhenya and the Cause of Crying and Laughing by Zhang Henshui.

? Hong kong and Taiwan romance

Around 1949, Yuanyang Butterfly sent its main force to leave the mainland for Hong Kong and Taiwan, which was determined by the background of the times. Because of the class nature of mainland literature and art, romance novels were not developed in Chinese mainland at that time, and mainly circulated manuscripts, which would inadvertently become banned books.

Romantic novels in Hong Kong and Taiwan reached the peak of development in 1980s and 1990s. In 1980s, it was represented by Qiong Yao, Yi Shu, Cen Kailun and Ji Xiaotai, and in 1990s, it was represented by Xi Juan and Qing Yu, which also gave birth to Huayu Publishing House.

After the reform and opening up in Chinese mainland, with the improvement of openness, a large number of romantic female readers have been trained. However, after 2005, the relationship between Hong Kong and Taiwan declined.

? Romance in mainland China

After 2000, the development of Internet has brought great influence to traditional literary forms. During this period, the stage of romance novels moved to the mainland, and the colorful romance of Hong Kong and Taiwan was gradually replaced by the mainland.

The main reason is that the female readers of romantic novels in Chinese mainland and Hong Kong became mothers in 1980s and 1990s, leaving a beautiful legacy for their children. At the same time, the romance between Hong Kong and Taiwan lacks the mainland cultural background, so it is frivolous in Shanghai and can't keep up with the trend. Most importantly, a new generation of mainland writers and writers are no longer satisfied with Hong Kong and Taiwan-style dreams. They have more ideas and want to show themselves. They want to be masters.

The rapid rise of Chinese mainland's new generation has brought romance novels into a new era-the era of online love. Romance novels have a variety of styles, such as crossing the city, abusing the heart, campus, Gao Qian and so on. , especially through the text, constantly put romantic works on the screen. At the same time, a large number of online writers have emerged, represented by xiaosongxiyue, four little divas, six little princesses and eight little Linglong, great writers represented by Cang Yue, Muran Qianshan, Mingxi, Milan, Wu Xinyi, Sanyuan and Gu Man, potential writers represented by Anlis, Miao Juan, Jin, Xin Li and You Jiang, and potential writers represented by A Snow Maple Leaf and Blowing Wind.