What are the characteristics of the language of each of the four Chinese masterpieces?

The language characteristics of the four famous Chinese novels are as follows:

Meng of the Red Chamber: subtle and elegant, good words like pearls; anger, scolding and laughter, all become articles; focus on the refinement of words and phrases, and push the boundaries of innovation.

The Journey to the West: witty and amusing; the official language and Huai'an dialect are lively and lively, blending with each other.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: the text is not very deep, the words are not very vulgar; the words are about the meaning, intriguing; the literary style is soaring and musical; half-text, half-white, diverse and unified.

Water Margin: very colloquial. The language is clear, concise, vivid, accurate and expressive.

Introduction of the Four Masterpieces:

The Dream of the Red Chamber, the first of the Four Masterpieces, is a work of humane fiction with world influence , recognized as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction, the encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, and a masterpiece of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of the four great families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as its background, the family affairs and courtesan affairs of Jia House as its vein, and the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as its main line, and depicts the beauty of the human nature and tragedy of the lovers of good and evil centered on Jia Baoyu and the twelve hairpins of the Jinling Haircuts. Through the tragedy of the family, the tragedy of the daughter and the tragedy of the main character's life, it reveals the crisis of the last days of feudalism.

The Journey to the West is the first long romantic novel of God and magic in ancient China, which profoundly depicts the social reality and is the pioneering work of magic realism. Mainly depicts the Sun Wukong, Pigsy, Sha Monk three people to protect the Tang Monk westbound to fetch the scriptures, the Tang Monk from the birth to fetch eighty-one sufferings, all the way to subdue the demons and demons, the nine-nine, finally went to the Western Heaven to see the Buddha Buddha Rulai.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms depicts nearly 105 years of history from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, and focuses on the wars, reflecting the political and military struggles between the three political groups of Wu, Shu and Wei. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions in the Three Kingdoms era, and summarizes the historical changes of this era, shaping a number of powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms. The book is divided into five major parts: the Rebellion of the Yellow Turbans, the Rebellion of Dong Zhuo, the Chasing of the Stag, the Triple Triad, and the Return of the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty. A magnificent war scene is staged on a vast background. The editor Luo Guanzhong blends the 36 stratagems of the art of war into his words, both the plot and the tactics of war.

Water Margin is also one of the most epic works in Chinese literature. It is one of the earliest chapter books in Chinese history written in vernacular language. There are many versions of the novel, which have been widely circulated and are popular, and have had an extremely far-reaching influence on narrative literature in China and even in East Asia. It is a long novel mainly depicting ancient peasant revolts. It graphically depicts the whole process of the peasant revolt from its occurrence and development to its failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the revolt, enthusiastically glorifies the resistance struggle of the heroes of the revolt and their social ideals, and also specifically reveals the inherent historical reasons for the failure of the revolt.