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Water Margin is a representative novel reflecting the ancient peasant war, and Greenwood novels have come all the way.
The Three Kingdoms is a historical novel, romantic.
Westward Journey is the representative of magical novels and mythological novels-from Shan Hai Jing:
A Dream of Red Mansions is a masterpiece of realistic novels, which inherits the realistic tradition of Jin Ping Mei.
These four books actually represent four themes in the history of China literature; This is not to say that China's classical novels can only be read in these four books before they can be called "masterpieces"; They respectively expressed the position and value of all kinds of novels in the history of China literature!
A, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms tells the story of the Three Kingdoms, not from Luo Guanzhong. People who say the old saying in Song Shili Lane have "three points" and tell the story of the Three Kingdoms. Su Dongpo also said: "Wang Peng tasted the cloud:' The children in the alley, ... sit and listen to the old saying, talk about the great events of the Three Kingdoms, and when they heard Liu Xuande's defeat, they frowned frequently and cried bitterly; When you hear that Cao Cao was defeated, you will sing with joy. Therefore, I know the virtue of a gentleman and the virtue of a villain, and I will never cut it. ""It can be seen that before Luo Guanzhong, there were such books as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Because things in the Three Kingdoms are not as chaotic as in the Five Dynasties; Not as simple as Chu Han; It is not simple or complicated, and it is suitable for writing novels. Moreover, the heroes of the Three Kingdoms are very touching because of their wisdom and courage, so people like to use them as the underlying material of novels. Furthermore, Pei Songzhi's comments on the history of the Three Kingdoms are detailed enough to arouse people's attention to the affairs of the Three Kingdoms. It is difficult to draw a hasty conclusion whether The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a creation or an inheritance for Luo Guanzhong. However, there was a saying in Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty that the title was Biography of Hou Chen Shou in Pingyang, Jin Dynasty, edited by Luo Ming, which was directly compiled according to Chen Shou's The History of the Three Kingdoms. But now the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been changed by later generations, not its true colors. If we discuss the pros and cons of his book, the critics think there are three shortcomings: (1) is easy to be misunderstood. Because seven of the things described in the middle are true and three are false; It's just that its truth is more than its emptiness, so people may inevitably believe that emptiness is real. For example, Wang Yuyang is a famous poet and scholar. He has a poem called "Hanging Pang Shiyuan on the Phoenix Slope" [1]. This "Phoenix Slope" is only found in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but Wang Yuyang was stunned by it. (2) The description is too real. People who write well have no harm at all; And people who can't write well are not good at all. In fact, this is not the case, because a person can't be good at everything and can't be bad at everything. For example, Cao Cao also has his advantages in politics; And Liu Bei, Guan Yu, etc. It can't be said that there is no discussion, but the author doesn't care, just writes subjectively and often becomes an unreasonable person. (3) Articles and ideas can't be consistent-that is, what the author shows can't be consistent with what the author imagines. If he wants to write about Cao Cao's treacherous hero, the result seems to be magnanimous and wise; Trying to write about Kong Ming's wisdom turned out to be cunning. -However, it has a good place, like writing a paragraph about Guan Yunchang beheading Hua Xiong, which is really vivid;