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What are the benefits of writing novels for historical research?
The benefits are as follows:

1. The historical narrative of this article is intertwined with the realistic narrative, which creates a historical atmosphere, increases the heavy feeling of the article and makes it more profound and powerful to read;

2. The historical content echoes the realistic narrative, with fine and compact structure and distinct levels, which makes the article complete in elements and plots;

3. Enrich the content of the article, so that the article does not stick to the narrative of a single event, but spans history and reality, greatly enriching the narrative plot;

4. Through the contrast and contrast of characters, the characters are set off from different angles of history and reality, making them more stereoscopic and sensible;

5. Arrange the plot in the way of time-space transformation, so that the main line runs through the whole text, express the constant main line in the changing time, and express the central idea at multiple levels;

6. Complement the corresponding background of the corresponding events, so that readers can understand the content of the article and the corresponding plot;

7. Hinting through the episode of the event has the function of serving as the premise background for the corresponding plot and reminding readers;

8. Constantly narrate in the transformation between history and reality, and the plots that took place in different times are staged in turn, inspiring readers with a sense of time-space transformation.

Characteristics of novels

value

The value essence of the novel takes time as the sequence and one or several characters as the main line, which reflects the process of the emergence, development and disappearance of the value relations (political relations, economic relations and cultural relations) of various roles in social life in a very detailed and comprehensive way. Show the interaction of various value relationships in a very detailed and comprehensive way.

capacity

Compared with other literary styles, the novel has a large capacity, which can show the characters' character and destiny in detail, show the intricate contradictions and conflicts, and describe the social life environment in which the characters live. The advantage is that it can provide a complete and broad social life.

plot

The novel mainly shows the character and performance center through stories. The story comes from life, but after sorting, refining and arranging, it is more concentrated, complete and representative than the real cases in real life.

Environmental nature

The description of the environment and the characterization of the novel have an extremely important relationship with the central idea. In the description of environment, social environment is the key point, which reveals all kinds of complex social relations, such as identity, status, historical background of growth and so on. The natural environment includes the place, time, season, climate, scenery and scenes of people's activities, which are used to express the identity and status of people. The description of natural environment plays an important role in expressing characters' emotions and rendering the environmental atmosphere.

expansibility

Novels develop with the development of the times: in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, literati note novels were the embryonic form of China's ancient novels; The emergence of Tang legends, especially the three love legends, marks the formal formation of classical novels; During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, with the development of commodity economy and market culture, vernacular novels appeared, which laid a solid foundation for the maturity of novels. Novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties are the pinnacle of the development of China's ancient novels. No one surpassed them at that time, and the four classical novels all originated from this.

pure

The novel genre in pure literature pays attention to purity. "When a lie is exhausted, it is pure." (from the inscription of Zheng published by Mo) The so-called "Zheng". That is to say, in the process of conception and writing, novels can make all kinds of lies, such as political lies, moral lies, business lies, maintaining class power lies, ignorant lies and so on. , so that the finished novel presents pure artistry.

The purity of novels is one of the most important aesthetic expectations of readers. With the development of the times, not only novels, but also the purity of the whole literature has become an important core of literary aesthetics in the whole world.