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What is Four Great Classical Novels in China?

China's four classical novels A Dream of Red Mansions Author: Cao Xueqin, novelist of Qing Dynasty. ? Journey to the West Author: Wu Cheng'en, Ming Dynasty novelist. Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Luo Guanzhong was a novelist and dramatist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. ? "Water Margin" by Shi Naian, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.

1, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four classical novels in China, and its full name is the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The writer is Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. He is China's first historical novel. This paper describes the historical situation from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the early Western Jin Dynasty 105.

The book reflects the political and military struggle and the transformation of various social contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms, so that modern people can feel the characteristics of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

2. The Water Margin is a novel with the theme of describing the ancient peasant uprising.

It vividly depicts the whole process of peasant uprising from its occurrence, development to failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle and social ideal of the uprising heroes, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

3. The Journey to the West, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is the first romance novel written by China and Wu Cheng'en in ancient Ming Dynasty.

This paper mainly tells the story of four disciples, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai, who protected the Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures in the West. They went through eighty-one difficulties along the way, subdued demons, saved the day, and finally arrived in the West to learn Buddhist scriptures.

4. A Dream of Red Mansions is a human novel with world influence, which is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of China's feudal society and a master of traditional culture.

The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, focuses on Jia's family chores and leisure in the boudoir, and focuses on the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.

Focusing on Jia Baoyu and the twelve women in Jinling, this paper describes the beauty of human nature and the tragedy of lovers. It praised the rebels who pursued light, predicted the inevitable demise of feudal society through the tragic fate of the rebels, and revealed the crisis of feudal eschatology.