2. Liang Shanbo (Ming) Shi Naian;

3. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Ming) Luo Guanzhong;

4. Journey to the West (Ming) Wu Cheng'en;

5. Jinghuayuan (Qing) Li Ruzhen;

6. Scholar (Qing) Wu;

7. Romance of the Gods (Ming) Xu;

8. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio (Qing Dynasty) Pu Songling;

9. Officialdom appears (Qing) Li;

10. Zhou Zhidong Zhou (Ming) Feng Menglong;

Introduction to the work:

A Dream of Red Mansions is an earthly novel with world influence. It is recognized as the pinnacle of China's classical novels, an encyclopedia of feudal society in China and a master of traditional culture. The novel takes the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, focuses on Jia's family affairs and leisure, and focuses on the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. It describes the beauty of humanity and tragedy of lovers of good and evil centered on Jia Baoyu and twelve women in Jinling, praises the rebels who pursue light, foresees the inevitable demise of feudal society through the tragic fate of rebels, and reveals the crisis of feudal eschatology.

The Water Margin is a novel with the theme of describing the ancient peasant uprising. It vividly depicts the whole process of peasant uprising from its occurrence, development to failure, profoundly reveals the social roots of the uprising, enthusiastically praises the resistance struggle and social ideal of the uprising heroes, and specifically reveals the internal historical reasons for the failure of the uprising.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel, which mainly describes the war at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and reflects the political and military struggle between the political groups of Wei, Shu and Wu Sanda. It is divided into three parts: the Yellow Scarf Uprising, the Dong Zhuo Uprising and the Three Kingdoms. On a broad background, a magnificent war scene was staged. Between the lines, Luo Guanzhong combined the thirty-six strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War, including both the plot and the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War. This book reflects rich historical content. The names of people, place names, major events and people are basically the same as those in the History of the Three Kingdoms. It is based on a fixed image and played again. This is also the routine of historical romance novels. On the one hand, this book reflects the real history of the Three Kingdoms and caters to the readers' needs to understand the real history; On the other hand, according to the actual situation of Ming society, the figures of the Three Kingdoms were exaggerated, beautified and vilified.

The Journey to the West is one of the four classical novels in China, and the first romance novel by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in Ming Dynasty. It is also called Journey to the West and The Book of Journey to the West. This article mainly tells the story of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand protecting the Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures. From the reincarnation of the scriptures to his return home, the Tang Priest turned evil and saved the day. After eighty-one difficulties, he finally reached the Western Heaven and obtained the true scriptures. Based on Tang Sanzang's Buddhist scriptures, folk customs and Yuan Zaju.

Jing Hua Yuan is a novel by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty. The first half of the book tells the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others who traveled overseas by boat, including their experiences and history in countries such as daughter country, scholar country, and loveless country. The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's selection of talented women in the imperial examination, Tang Xiaoshan, born of Baihua Fairy, and hundreds of talented women born of other flower fairies, who made a difference in the DPRK. His magical and humorous creative technique is a classic, and a colorful picture of the sky wheel is beautifully outlined.

The Scholars is a novel of Wu in Qing Dynasty. 56 times. The book was written in 1749 (the 14th year of Qianlong) or earlier, and it was handed down from generation to generation by manuscript, and was first engraved in 1803 (the 8th year of Jiaqing). Describing various people's different performances in "fame and fortune" with realism, on the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the erosion of human nature, thus profoundly criticizing and mocking the corruption of bureaucrats and the hypocrisy of imperial examinations at that time; On the one hand, it enthusiastically praised the protection of human nature by a few characters in a self-centered way, thus embodying the author's ideal. The use of vernacular Chinese is becoming more and more skillful, and the characterization of characters is also quite in-depth and delicate, especially the satirical technique is superb, which makes this book a masterpiece of China's classical satirical literature. This book represents the peak of China's ancient satirical novels, and creates an example of directly evaluating real life with novels.

The Romance of the Gods, commonly known as the List of Gods, is also known as The Complete Biography of Shang and Zhou States, The History of King Wu Attacking Zhou, and The Biography of Gods. It is also a ghost story novel in ancient China. Written by Xu (Chen) in the Ming Dynasty, it was written in and Wanli. The book has been read a hundred times. The prototype of the Romance of the Gods can be traced back to Wu Wang's attack on Pinghua in the Southern Song Dynasty, or it may refer to Deduction of Shang and Zhou Dynasties and Journey to the East of the Eight Immortals in Kunlun. Based on the history of Jiang Ziya's assistance to Zhou Shi (Zhou Wenwang and Zhou Wuwang) in the crusade against Shang and Zhou Dynasties, this paper describes the story of Buddhism, intercepting various immortals' wits and fighting bravely, and breaking the array and beheading the gods. Contains a lot of folklore and myths. There are Jiang Ziya, Nezha, Yang Jian and other vivid figures, which ended with Jiang Ziya as the deity and Zhou Wuwang as the king.

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, commonly known as Ghost Fox, is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese by Pu Songling, a famous novelist in China in the Qing Dynasty. There are 49 1 short stories in the book (494 in total: Notes on the School Meeting of Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio and Zhu's Notes on Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio). Wide range of subjects, rich content and high artistic achievements. His works have successfully created many artistic models, with vivid characters, bizarre and tortuous story, rigorous and ingenious structural layout, concise writing and delicate description, which can be called the pinnacle of classical Chinese short stories.

The Manifestation of Officialdom is a condemnation novel in the late Qing Dynasty, written by Li Boyuan, the director of Nanting. This novel was originally serialized in Chen's "The Prosperity of the World", which is divided into five parts and 60 chapters. This is the first novel in modern China that was serialized in newspapers and caused a sensation in society. It consists of more than 30 relatively independent official stories, involving the Qing government from the emperor to the assistant minister, creating an atmosphere in which modern novels criticize reality.

Biography of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is a historical novel in ancient China, written by Feng Menglong, a novelist in the late Ming Dynasty. Written in ancient vernacular, this novel mainly describes the history of more than 500 years from the period of Western Zhou Xuanwang to the unification of the six countries by Qin Shihuang.