Romance of Popular Novels

The characteristics of popular fiction, in the form of inherited the traditional mode of ancient Chinese novels, in the function of focusing on fun, entertainment, knowledge and readability, but also take into account the effect of "edification for pleasure" to punish evil and persuade good.

The "Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly School" of the Republican period was a kind of popular fiction. They took romance novels as their backbone, and their mood and style favored the general characteristics of secularism and kitsch.

The representatives of the old school of romance novels are Xu Pillowia's Jade Pear Soul, Wu Shuangjie's Mirror of Sins and Grievances, and Li Dingyi's Rainstorm and Jade Grievances, which are known as the "Three Tripods".

Among them, "Jade Pear Souls" is a very meaty article, for the Mandarin ducks and butterflies school of novels ancestor, with the "postscript" form of writing the narrator after the memorial, "rendering a sentimental bleak atmosphere, which is all incorporated in an old framework, and therefore immobile. The ekphrasis novel hitched a ride on both the classical poetic tradition and modern techniques, which foreshadowed the transitional status of the Republican old-school novels from the outset.