Author: (Late Yuan Dynasty and Early Ming Dynasty) Luo Guanzhong
Full name: Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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Introduction of Romance of the Three Kingdoms: It is written according to Chen Shou's The History of the Three Kingdoms, Ye Fan's The History of the Later Han Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty's The Story of the Three Kingdoms and some folklore. At present, the earliest edition is Ming Jiajing edition, which is divided into 24 volumes and 240 articles. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang made some revisions, and it became the current 120 edition.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in Taoyuan and ends with Wu. It describes the military and political struggles between Wei, Shu and Wu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The characters are simple, profound, tortuous and grand in structure.
The Water Margin?
Also known as: Loyalty and Righteousness Water Margin
Authors: (late Yuan and early Ming) Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.
Gao Ru recorded what he saw in "Hundred Rivers Record" in Ming Dynasty. The former was "Qiantang Shi Naian Book, edited by Luo Guanzhong". Hu Yinglin's Shao Shi Shan Fang Bi Ji was written by Shi Naian, and Wang Qi's Xushu Tongkao was written by Luo Guanzhong.
Introduction to Water Margin: The author created it on the basis of the legacy of Xuanhe and related scripts and stories. The main theme of the book is to describe the peasant war, and it has created Liangshan heroes such as jy, Lin Chong, Lu and Song Jiang, and revealed the social contradictions at that time. The story is tortuous, the language is vivid, and the characters are vivid, which has high artistic achievements.
Water Margin Edition: In the spread of Water Margin, there are many different books. At present, there are mainly 100 copies, 120 copies and 70 copies. After Zhao An 100, there were plots such as "collecting Liao" and suppressing Fang La uprising. 120 Huiben added the plot of suppressing tian hu and Wang Qing. Later, Jin Shengtan deleted the book, excluding courtship and later events, and called it 70 chapters (actually 7 1 chapter).
[Literary Works] Journey to the West
Author: (Ming) Wu Cheng'en
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Introduction to Journey to the West: Journey to the West is based on the story of Tang Priest's scriptures, related scripts and zaju (written by Yang Ne at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty). Seven times before the Journey to the West, the Monkey King was born, and there was a story about the Palace of 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 Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand in the book are vivid, large-scale and complete in structure.
A Dream in Red Mansions
Original name: The Story of Stone
Authors: (Qing) Cao Xueqin, Gao E.
A Dream of Red Mansions has * * * 120 chapters, the first 80 chapters are written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters are generally considered to be written by Gao E. Cao Zuo's eighty chapters were circulated in the form of manuscripts in the process of writing and revision. In the fifty years of Qianlong (179 1), Cheng Weiyuan printed the first eighty chapters and the last forty chapters with movable type, which became popular from then on. But the words in the first eighty chapters have been changed.
A Dream of Red Mansions: A Dream of Red Mansions was written in the Qing Dynasty in the middle of18th century. Based on the love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, it focuses on the whole process of Jia government and Ningguo government from prosperity to decline. The language of the works is beautiful and vivid, and he is good at portraying characters, and has created such distinctive characters as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng, Xue Baochai and You Sanjie. This book is large in scale and rigorous in structure.