Luo Guanzhong, the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, wrote a book in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.
Shi Naian, the author of Water Margin, wrote it at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty.
The Journey to the West author Wu Cheng'en, written in the Ming Dynasty.
The first 80 chapters of A Dream of Red Mansions were written by Cao Xueqin, and the last 40 chapters were continued by Gao E. The book was written in the forty-ninth year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1784).
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Brief introduction of four classic novels
1, Water Margin
"Water Margin" takes the rebel army led by Song Jiang as the main theme, and through a series of vivid stories of Liangshan heroes' resistance to oppression and heroic struggle, it exposes the decay and cruelty of the ruling class at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and exposes the sharp social contradictions and the cruel reality of "officials forcing the people to rebel" at that time.
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The story begins with the Yellow Scarf Uprising and ends with Sima's destruction of Wu. It mainly describes the war, reflects the political and military struggle between Wei, Wu, shows the historical situation of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, and successfully created a group of heroes.
3. A Dream of Red Mansions
The story of A Dream of Red Mansions is based on four families: Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue, with the love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the center, and the characters with distinctive personalities such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng, Xue Baochai and You Sanjie as the main line.
This paper describes the decline process of four feudal bureaucrats, Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue, especially the Jia family, exposes the evils of feudal rulers and explains the historical fate of the inevitable decline of feudal dynasties. ?
4. Journey to the West
The Journey to the West mainly describes the story of the Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, Friar Sand and Bai protecting Tang Priest from the West during the reign of Emperor Taizong. They went through all the hardships along the way, turned evil spirits and avoided disasters, and finally arrived in the Western Heaven to learn from the scriptures. This novel is based on the historical event of "Tang priest learning from the scriptures" and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Classic Novels