The Contemporary Value of China's Classical Novels

The contemporary value of China's classical novels: inheriting culture, improving literary accomplishment, enlightening thoughts, social education function and artistic value.

1. Inheriting culture: China's classical novels are an important part of China's long history and rich culture, bearing the traditional values, moral concepts and aesthetic tastes of the Chinese nation. By reading classical novels, we can deepen our understanding of China's traditional culture, carry forward the national spirit and enhance national self-confidence.

2. Improve literary literacy: Chinese classical novels have high artistic value and unique charm in plot setting, characterization and writing style. Reading these works can improve people's literary accomplishment and cultivate good aesthetic taste and appreciation ability.

3. Ideological enlightenment: Although classical novels originated from ancient society, many of the themes and problems discussed in them still have practical significance. For example, the analysis of human nature in A Dream of Red Mansions and The Journey to the West's thinking on life belief can bring profound enlightenment and sentiment to contemporary people.

4. Social education function: Classical novels often contain rich social content and historical information, which can be used as an important window for contemporary people to understand history and society. In addition, the characters and story lines in classical novels can also be used to educate and infect modern people and cultivate good moral quality and social responsibility.

5. Artistic value: China's classical novels are unique in artistic form, such as chapters and sentences, classical Chinese, etc. This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. Learning and appreciating classical novels can enrich people's cultural life and improve their artistic accomplishment.

China recommended classical novels.

1, Outlaws of the Marsh: a novel written by Shi Naian in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and one of the four classical novels in China. This book is a heroic novel, which describes the grand story of Liangshan heroes' resistance to oppression, the growth of Liangshan in Shui Bo, their enlistment in the Song Dynasty and their eventual demise.

2. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms: A novel written by novelist Luo Guanzhong in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, based on Chen Shou's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi's notes and Folk Tales of the Three Kingdoms.

3. China Wu Cheng'en's first romance novel in ancient Ming Dynasty.