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Looking for an appreciation of an ancient novel, about 1500 words.

Appreciation of China's Ancient Novels

In China's ancient traditional literature, novels are "unpretentious", but in today's society, novels have become the most popular and popular genre, especially a large number of excellent classical novels that have stood the test of time and have been passed down to this day, and also occupy a certain proportion in middle school Chinese textbooks.

So, how should middle school students who are new to China's ancient novels appreciate it?

First of all, we should have a basic understanding of the historical development of ancient novels.

Many students know that the success of novels lies in tortuous stories and distinctive characters, but they don't know that ancient novels in different periods have different appreciation angles. Throughout the development history of China's ancient novels, early works pay more attention to the narrative of stories and less attention to the characterization of characters. At this stage, the characters in the novel are just the carrier of the story and the tool to unfold the story; The characters are single-minded, magical and legendary, which has a lot to do with their origins in myths and legends. For example, fables in the pre-Qin period, "strange stories" and "people-oriented novels" in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and legends in the Tang Dynasty. Most of them focus on the plot of the story. Later, the focus of the novel began to shift to people themselves, paying attention to the shaping of characters, and the story became the carrier of personality. This great change can be said to be a glory in the history of the development of ancient novels. As Lao She said: "... everything is fleeting, novel for a while, and soon goes bad;" Only characters are immortal. Therefore, the continuation of the "Shi Gong case" is not as good as the value of a Song Wu. " At this stage, a large number of excellent works have appeared, which are deeply loved by the people of China and become the precious wealth of classical literature and art.

With this understanding of the plot and the position of the characters in different stages, we can appreciate the works with a clear aim and focus on reading and taste.

Secondly, when appreciating ancient novels, we should pay more attention to their characteristics.

(1) The plot is tortuous and the story is complete. Throughout the development history, it is not difficult to find that this is a unique artistic tradition of the novel. The twists and turns of the plot not only make the novel story-like, close to readers' heartstrings and attract them to care about the fate of the characters in the novel, but more importantly, it can reflect the contradictions and conflicts in social reality through a series of plots, making the theme more profound. For example, The Outlaws of the Marsh closely revolves around the general clue of "officials forcing the people to revolt", and the plot is fascinating, from Lin Chong being caught up with Liangshan to "outwitting the birth outline", "Huarong Road making a scene in Qingfeng Village" and "Song Gongming hitting three villages". Events, big and small, are ups and downs and changeable, which not only reflect the whole process of the uprising from small to large, but also reveal the theme of the novel "officials force the people to rebel" The story, even a short story, is complete from beginning to end, which can be basically divided into beginning, development, climax and ending.

(B) distinctive personality, with typical significance. When appreciating ancient novels, if we only focus on the tortuous plot and ignore its characterization, we can't really understand its theme deeply, and the benefits will be greatly reduced. A large number of excellent ancient novels have left people with immortal characters, who are immortal because of their distinctive and typical personalities. Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Song Jiang, Lu, the Monkey King and Lin Daiyu are still talked about by people.

China's ancient novels often express characters through a series of contradictions and conflicts. In the sharp contradiction of Battle of Red Cliffs, the author not only wrote the heroic talents of Zhou Yu and Kong Ming, but also wrote Lu Su's sincere loyalty, Huang Gai's sincere loyalty and Jiang Gan's foolish loyalty for personal use. The author also uses the method of contrast to highlight the personalities of different characters. When it comes to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, we will naturally compare Cao Cao with Liu Bei. One is treacherous everywhere, the other is kind everywhere. This positive and negative contrast makes the character more prominent.