What are the classic literary works in China?

China's classical literature is one of China's profound and long-standing cultures, and it is a splendid legacy of world culture. These works include poems, characters, operas, novels, essays, academic miscellaneous books, historical biographies and so on. The main representative works are A Dream of Red Mansions, The Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West, The Mirror Flower Garden, The Scholars, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, etc.

China's Top Ten Masterpieces

1. A Dream of Red Mansions (also known as the Story of the Stone) (Qing) Cao Xueqin;

2. Liang Shanbo (Ming) Shi Naian;

3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Ming) Luo Guanzhong;

4. Journey to the West (Ming) Wu Cheng'en;

5. Jinghuayuan (Qing) Li Ruzhen;

6. Scholar (Qing) Wu;

7. Romance of the Gods (Ming) Xu;

8. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio (Qing Dynasty) Pu Songling;

9. Officialdom appears (Qing) Li;

10. Records of Feng Menglong in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (Ming Dynasty).

China's famous novels

There are various types of China's famous novels, including case-solving novels, ghost novels, romance novels, chivalrous novels, unofficial history novels, love novels, satirical novels, romance novels, fantasy novel and so on.

Works before Ming and Qing Dynasties

Liu Xiang (Western Han Dynasty), Biography of Woman Xia

Seeking God (Gold) Gan Bao

Tai Ping Guang Ji (Song Dynasty), Li Mu, etc.

Shi Shuo Xin Yu (Southern and Northern Dynasties) Liu Yiqing

Biography of Yingying and Tang Yuanzhen