Domestic classics

Four generations under one roof is a million-word novel written by China writer Lao She. This is a novel that shows the life of ordinary people in the occupied areas of Beiping during the Anti-Japanese War and the Anti-Japanese War.

The book takes the Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Beiping as the background, and through complicated contradictions and entanglements, with the Qi family in the Hutong as the main body and the residents such as the Qian family and the Guan family as the auxiliary parts, depicts the images of many ordinary people at all levels of society at that time;

The choice of resistance and obedience, the choice of country and individual, and all kinds of difficult choices are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era.

1949 published a translated version of Festival in the United States, entitled Yellow Storm, which is considered as "one of the most acclaimed novels and one of the best novels published in the United States".

2. Border towns

Border Town is Shen Congwen's masterpiece, and it was selected as one of the top 100 novels in China in the 20th century, ranking second only to Lu Xun's Scream.

Based on the tea cave in the border town between Sichuan and Hunan in the 1930s, it depicts the unique customs of western Hunan with beautiful strokes of lyric poems and essays.

The pure love story of Cui Cui, a boatman girl, shows the goodness and beauty of human nature. Due to the aesthetic art of Border Town, the novel Border Town has a unique position in the history of modern literature in China.

3. Ordinary world

Ordinary World is a million-word novel by China writer Lu Yao. This is a novel with a panoramic view of China's contemporary urban and rural social life, consisting of three books. First published in February, 1986.

The book is set in China in the ten years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, and depicts the images of many ordinary people in all walks of life at that time.

Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. 1991March, Ordinary World won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize in China.

4. "Officialdom in the Sky"

Officialdom in the Sky is a novel by Li Boyuan, a writer in the late Qing Dynasty. This novel was originally serialized in the World Prosperity published by Chen, and it is divided into five parts and 60 chapters. It is the first novel in modern China that was serialized in newspapers and caused a sensation in society.

It consists of more than 30 relatively independent official stories, involving the Qing government from the emperor to the assistant minister, creating an atmosphere in which modern novels criticize reality.

Lu Xun called three novels, such as Officialdom in the Sky, condemnation novels, which are one of the representative works of late Qing literature. 1998, Hong Kong's Asia Weekly selected 100 outstanding literary works of the 20th century, and officialdom stories ranked first 10.

1999, People's Literature Publishing House selected 100 outstanding novels of the 20th century, and the officialdom stories in appearance ranked first.

5. "The Reasons for Laughing and Crying"

The Cause of Crying and Laughing is the representative work of Zhang Henshui, the first person known as "Zhang Hui novelist" and "master of popular literature" in the history of modern literature.

The book adopts the love mode of one man and three women as the core structure of the story. Through the love tragedy of Fan Jiashu, a young resident of Hangzhou and Beijing, and Shen Fengxi, a singer of Tianqiao, it reflects the dark and turbulent social side during the rule of Beiyang warlords.

It not only aroused strong repercussions among the old readers of the old-school novels; But also surprised the new literary and art circles at that time, and even discussed why there was such a great charm and how widely it spread.

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