Famous Chinese literary novels?

There are: "A Dream of Red Mansions", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "The Scholars" and so on.

1. "Dream of Red Mansions" "Dream of Red Mansions" is an ancient Chinese chapter novel, also known as "The Story of the Stone", etc. It is listed as the first of the four classic Chinese classics and is generally believed to be written by the Qing Dynasty writer Cao Xueqin.

The novel takes the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue as the background, and takes the wealthy young master Jia Baoyu as the perspective. It depicts the various life styles of a group of boudoir beauties who behave and know more than men, and shows the true beauty and beauty of human nature.

Tragic Beauty can be said to be an epic work that shows the beauty of women and the various aspects of ancient Chinese society from all angles.

The version of "A Dream of Red Mansions" can be divided into two systems: the 120-chapter "Cheng version" and the 80-chapter "Zhi version".

The Cheng version is the printed version typewritten by Cheng Weiyuan, and the Zhi version is the early handwritten version of the commentary copied by Zhi Yanzhai at different times.

Zhiben is the basis of Chengben.

2. "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" The full name of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" (also known as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"). It is one of the four classic Chinese classics and the first full-length historical romance novel in China. The author is Yuan Yuan.

Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Ming Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.

After the "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was written, several versions including the Jiajing Renwu edition were handed down to the world. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang reorganized the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", revised the diction, and changed the poems.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" describes the historical events of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty. It mainly describes wars and tells the story of the war between the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the political and military struggles among the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu.

In the end, Sima Yan unified the three kingdoms and established the Jin Dynasty.

It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions in the Three Kingdoms era, summarizes the great historical changes of this era, and creates a group of all-powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

The whole book can be roughly divided into five parts: the Yellow Turban Uprising, Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the Competition of Heroes, the Standing of the Three Kingdoms, and the Return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin.

On the vast historical stage, majestic war scenes were staged.

The author Luo Guanzhong integrates the Thirty-six Strategies of War between the lines, with both plot and military strategy.

3. "Water Margin" "Water Margin" is one of China's four famous novels. It is a chapter-length novel with the Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty as the main story background and a heroic legend in genre.

The author or editor is generally considered to be Shi Naian, and most of the existing publications are signed by either Shi Naian or Luo Guanzhong, or both.

The book artistically reflects the entire process of the Songjiang Uprising in Chinese history from its occurrence, development to failure by describing the grand story of the heroes of Liangshan resisting oppression, the growth of Liangshan in the water, and the recruitment by the Song Dynasty.

It profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle of the uprising heroes and their social ideals, and also specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

4. "Journey to the West" "Journey to the West" is the first romantic chapter-length novel about gods and demons in ancient China.

None of the 100-chapter editions of "Journey to the West" published in the Ming Dynasty are signed by the author.

Qing Dynasty scholar Wu Yuqi and others first proposed that the author of "Journey to the West" was Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty.

This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang Monk's Pursuit of Buddhist Scriptures". Through the author's artistic processing, it profoundly depicts the social reality at that time.

The whole book mainly describes that after Sun Wukong was born and caused havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he met Tang Monk, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk and White Dragon Horse, traveled to the west to obtain Buddhist scriptures, defeated demons and monsters along the way, experienced ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties, and finally reached the West to see Tathagata Buddha.

The story of the Five Saints finally coming true.

5. "The Scholars" "The Scholars" is a novel written by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty. It was written in the fourteenth year of Qianlong (1749) or a little before. It was first handed down in manuscript and was first engraved in the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803).

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The book's fifty-six chapters use realism to describe the different expressions of "fame and wealth" among various types of people. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons of the corruption of human nature, and thus analyzes the corruption of official administration at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, the hypocrisy of ethics, etc.

Deep criticism and ridicule.

On the one hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideal.

The use of vernacular in the novel has become more and more proficient, and the characterization of the characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the use of superb satirical techniques, making the book a masterpiece of Chinese classical satirical literature.