China's traditional masterpieces

China's traditional masterpieces include poems, essays, novels, ci, fu and qu.

China's Eight Classical Masterpieces:

1. The eight masterpieces are: Dream of Red Mansions, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, The Journey to the West, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Scholars, Romance of the Gods and Biography of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

2. A Dream of Red Mansions is an ancient chapter-style novel of China, also known as The Story of the Stone. It is listed as the first classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, and is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty.

3. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel, which is called the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms) and written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. There are several versions of the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms, such as Jiajing Renwu Edition. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang had rearranged the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, revised the wording and changed the poems.

4. The Water Margin is a chapter-by-chapter novel with the Sung River Uprising at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty as the main story background and a heroic legend in type. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing periodicals have one or two people, Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.

5. The Journey to the West is the first romantic novel in ancient China. There are hundreds of The Journey to the West published in Ming Dynasty, and there is no author's signature. Wu et al., a scholar in Qing Dynasty, first proposed that The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en in Ming Dynasty.

6. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese by Pu Songling, a novelist of China in the Qing Dynasty. They either exposed the darkness of feudal rule, attacked the decay of imperial examination system, or resisted the shackles of feudal ethics, and had rich and profound ideological content.

7. The Scholars is a novel by Wu in Qing Dynasty, which consists of 56 chapters. It depicts various people's different expressions of "fame and fortune" in a realistic way. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the erosion of human nature, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucrats at that time and the hypocrisy of the imperial examination.

8. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu's (controversial) Romance of the Gods and Demons was written in and Wanli. A hundred times, the book is about the story of the king of Wu cutting Zhou. The first 30 chapters focus on Zhou Wang's tyranny, Jiang Ziya's seclusion, his trip to Xi 'an and Jiang Ziya's assistance. The prince of Wu completed the great crusade against Zhou Wang.