What are the famous historical works? What is the main content of this book?

It is an ancient book of China, written by Chu people or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty. It is also a fantastic book. Shan Hai Jing also recorded China's ancient myths, geography, plants, animals, minerals, products, witchcraft, religion, medicine, folk customs and nationalities. The cultural phenomena reflected are all-encompassing.

Besides preserving rich mythological materials, it also involves many academic fields, such as philosophy, aesthetics, religion, history, geography, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, animals, plants, minerals, folklore, ethnology, geology, oceanography, psychology, anthropology and so on. It can be said that Wang Yang is a vast place, just like the sea and the sun.

In the case of underdeveloped ancient culture, science and technology and transportation, Shan Hai Jing is a wonderful book with the most myths recorded in China, and it is also an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge.

2. Water Margin

Outlaws of the Marsh is the first novel in the history of China that eulogizes the peasant uprising in ancient vernacular. Taking the rebel army led by Song Jiang as the main theme, through a series of vivid stories of Liangshan heroes' resistance to oppression and heroic struggle, the decay and cruelty of the ruling class in the late Northern Song Dynasty were exposed, and the sharp social contradictions and the cruel reality of "officials forcing the people to rebel" at that time were exposed.

3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with the Yellow Scarf Uprising and ends with Sima's destruction of Wu Jinkai. It mainly describes the war, reflects the political and military struggle between Wei, Wu, shows the historical situation of nearly a hundred years at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, and successfully created a group of heroes.

4. Journey to the West

The first seven chapters of Journey to the West described the story of the Monkey King's birth, such as making a scene in heaven. After that, he wrote the story of the Monkey King following the Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures and exorcising demons and overcoming difficulties along the way. The images of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand in the book are vivid, large in scale and complete in structure. The Journey to the West is full of Buddhist colors, with far-reaching implications and different opinions.

It can be appreciated from the perspectives of Buddhism, Taoism and vulgarity, and it is a great romantic literary work in Chinese classical novels.

5. A Dream of Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions focuses on the emotional entanglements among Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and tells the people and events that happened in the feudal family of a fictional dynasty. Through the description of some daily events, taking the twelve women in Jinling as the main body, it reflects the love and hate of all women in Jiafu Grand View Garden.

At the same time, from the rich and gorgeous Jiafu to the declining line, it reflects the decline of a large family and the ugliness within this seemingly gorgeous family.