Ancient China's top ten novels

One, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is an important ancient book of China's pre-Qin Dynasty, and also an absurd and strange book.

"Classic of Mountains and Seas" book records about 40 states, 550 mountains, 300 waterways, more than 100 historical figures, more than 400 gods and monsters fear of beasts, such as chaos: "Classic of Mountains and Seas," the second volume of the "West Mountain scriptures," cloud: "another three hundred and fifty miles west of the said Tianshan, more gold and jade, there are green and male yellow, water out of the Ying, and the southwestern flow injected in the Tang Valley. There is a god bird, its shape such as the yellow sac, red as Dan fire, six feet and four wings, Hun Dun no face, is the knowledge of song and dance, real but also the emperor river."

Hundun is Chaos, the image of Chaos for the knowledge of song and dance of the god bird; such as poor Qi: according to the "Mountains and Seas Classic Hai Nei Bei Jing", refers to the poor Qi looks like a tiger, has a pair of wings, like to eat people, more will start from the head of the person to eat, is a vicious beast.

Two, "Searching for Gods"

"Searching for Gods" is a novel, collecting more than four hundred stories of ancient gods and goddesses***, which created a precedent of ancient Chinese myths, and was written by Gan Bao, a historian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Sou Shen Ji is very rich in content, there are gods and goddesses and magicians, there are elves and monsters of the gods and goddesses, there are demons and auspicious divination dream induction, and there are people and gods, people and ghosts of the traffic and love, and so on.

The book retains a considerable portion of the historical myths and legends handed down from the Western Han Dynasty and the folk tales of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which are beautiful and moving, and are very much loved by the people. Myths, such as Volume 14 of the "Pan gourd myth", is about the origin of the ancient barbarians speculation; "Silkworm horse myth" is a myth about silk production. Historical legends, such as Volume 11, "Dry General Moxie," tells the story of revenge; Volume 16, "Legend of the Purple Jade," tells the story of the life and death of the daughter of the king of Wu, the love of the king of Wu.

Folktales, such as Volume 11, "The Filial Woman of the Eastern Sea," tells the story of the injustice done to the filial woman Zhou Qing; the legend of Mr. and Mrs. Han Bing glorifies faithful love; and Volume 1, the story of the fairy who marries Dong Yong, does the same. These stories are the essence of So Shen Ji, and have been passed down through the generations without fail.

Three, "Yu Ming Record"

"Yu Ming Record", also known as the "Underworld Records", "Underworld Records", is a collection of magical and strange novels, for the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Yiqing set of the clan compiled by the guests, 30 volumes.

The ghosts, gods, spirits, and monsters recorded in the book are so unpredictable and unpredictable that they fit in with this meaning, hence the name.

Most of the stories in the book are short and concise, lacking in details, but with elegant and delicate descriptions. Poetry is also cited in such chapters as Underwater String Song, Cailings Woman, Civet Speaks of the Scriptures, Guo Changsheng, Fei Sheng, Chen Arden, Fish-bellied Danwen, and Fangshan Tingming Mimicry.

The Record of the Ghosts and Monsters inherits the traditional theme of immortals and monsters, but there are also innovations, especially in the humanization of ghosts and monsters, which has made great progress and made the work more realistic.

Four, "Divine Anomaly Record"

"Divine Anomaly Record" is a collection of myths and weird novels of the Han Dynasty. It was written by Wang Fu in the Jin Dynasty. The original book has been lost, only in Lu Xun "ancient novels hook sinking" found in his about 1910 quoted in the class book "Shen Yi Ji", *** more than 400 words, is divided into eight, the first three for a short story, after the last five for each only a sentence.

The tea saint Lu Yu in the "tea scripture" "four of the apparatus" and "seven things" and "Guzhu mountain record", three quoted in the "Divine Isolation" recorded Yuyao Yu Hong waterfalls mountain encounter Dan Qiu Zi was a great tea.

Fifth, "Han Wu Di Nei Chuan"

"Han Wu Di Nei Chuan", also known as "Han Wu Nei Chuan", "Han Wu Di Chuan", mythological novels. *** a volume. Ming and Qing people have the cloud for Han Ban Gu or Jin Ge Hong writer, are not based on evidence, is actually a later forgery.

"Siku quanquan general catalog" when the cloud for the Wei Jin scholar, "Shou Shange series" collection of editors Qing Qian Xizuo presumed to be after the Eastern Jin Dynasty scribes, the two said roughly not bad.

This book is written since the birth of Emperor Wu of Han, until his death and funeral. The book is written from the birth of Emperor Wu until his death and funeral. It is a little bit about military and political affairs, and a little bit about seeking immortality. In particular, the descent of the Queen Mother of the West to meet Emperor Wu is described in detail.

Sixth, "Youyang Miscellany Chopper"

Youyang Miscellany Chopper Tang Dynasty novels, as a collection of notebooks and novels, there are 20 volumes of the first volume, the sequel 10 volumes.

The nature of the book, according to the author of the preface, "solid service is not ashamed of, inhibit the book of strange novels also".

The record has immortal Buddha ghosts and monsters, personnel to animals, plants, food, wine, temples and so on, categorized and cataloged, part of the contents of the legend of the class, and some of the other records of the various places and exotic treasures, and the Jin Zhang Hua "Museum of" the same kind of. Its account, or picking the old news, or out of their own writing, "more weird nonsense, ridiculous nonsense, and the remains of the secret books, but also often wrong out of it, so the commentators, although sick of its pomposity, but can not help but quote" ("Siku quanquan general catalog").

Many of these titles are quite obscure and bizarre, such as the record of Taoism called the "pot of history", the bill of Buddha called the "Bei Zhi", the funeral called the "corpse family", the bizarre called the "Nogao record" and so on. Sequel to the "temple tower record" 2 volumes, detailed description of the Chang'an Buddhist temple architecture, murals, etc., preserved many valuable historical materials, each for future generations of the Chang'an historical records taken by the capital.

Seven, "Taiping Guangji"

"Taiping Guangji" cited about more than 400 kinds of books, generally at the end of each article are indicated in the source, but there are occasionally some errors, resulting in the same book with a different name or a different book with the same name, and therefore can not be based on it to make accurate statistics.

There is a bibliography in the front of the book, ***3403, but it does not correspond to the actual number of citations in the book, which was probably added by people after the Song Dynasty.

The Taiping Guangji is categorized into ninety-two categories according to subject matter, and more than one hundred and fifty subcategories underneath, such as cattle, horses, camels, donkeys, dogs, sheep, and rags under the Department of Animals and Beasts, which makes it easy to find out what is going on.

From the content point of view, the most collected is the story, in fact, can be said to be a general collection of stories before the Song Dynasty. Many of them have been lost and can only be found in this book in its surviving text.

Many stories from the Tang and pre-Tang dynasties have been preserved by the Taiping Guangji.

Eighth, "Feuding God Yanyi"

"Feuding God Yanyi" is generally commonly known as "Feuding God's List", also known as the "Shang Zhou Li Guo Quan Zhuan", "Wu Wang Zhu Zhou Foreign History", "Feuding God's Biography", but also an ancient Chinese novel of gods and demons.

It was written by Xu Zhonglin (said to be Chen Zhonglin) in the Ming Dynasty, and was written during the Longqing and Wanli periods. The whole book *** one hundred times.

The prototype of Feuding the Gods can be traced back to the Southern Song Dynasty's Pinglish of King Wu's Conquest of Zhou, and may also refer to the Deduction of Shang and Zhou and Eastward Journey of the Eight Immortals of Kunlun, which takes the history of the Zhou Dynasty's crusade to conquer Zhou as the backdrop and depicts the story of the Hierophant and the Jiejie sects' immortality, which fights for wisdom, courage, and the breaking of formations and the capping of the gods.

Includes a large number of folklore and myths. There are vivid and distinctive characters such as Jiang Ziya, Nezha, Yang Jian, etc. It ends with Jiang Ziya sealing the gods and King Wu of Zhou sealing the lords.

Nine: Journey to the West

The Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, is the first long, romanticized novel of gods and demons in ancient China, written by the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en.

Mainly depicts the Sun Wukong, Pigsy and Monk Sha to protect the Tang Monk traveling west to get the scriptures, the Tang Monk from the birth to the return of the scriptures *** encountered 81 difficulties, all the way to subdue the demons and subdue the devil, to turn danger into safety, and finally arrived in the Western Paradise, to obtain the true scriptures of the story. It is based on the "Poetry Story of the Three Tibetans of the Tang Dynasty fetching the scriptures" and folklore and Yuan miscellaneous dramas.

Ten, "Liaozhai Zhiyi"

"Liaozhai Zhiyi" short for "Liaozhai", commonly known as "Ghosts and Foxes", is a collection of short stories in the literary language created by Pu Songling, a famous novelist of the Qing Dynasty in China.

The whole book*** has 491 short stories (Zhang Youhe "Liaozhai Zhiyi will be schooled will be noted will be commented on the book", Zhu Qikai "the whole of the new note Liaozhai Zhiyi" for 494).

The subject matter is wide and rich, and the artistic achievement is very high. The work successfully shaped a large number of artistic archetypes, distinctive and vivid characters, storyline twists and turns, the structure and layout of the rigorous and clever, concise writing, descriptive and delicate, can be called the pinnacle of the short story of the literary language.