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What are the four classic novels and what stories are they told?
1, China's four classical novels are Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, The Journey to the West and A Dream of Red Mansions. These four works are enduring, and they are rare works in China literature. All of them have a high artistic level, and their meticulous descriptions and ideas have been praised by readers of all ages.

2. The author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. This book reproduces the historical process from the rebellion at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, describes the intricate political and military contradictions and conflicts between Wei, Shu and Wu at that time, and shows the sharp, complex and distinctive political and military conflicts in that era under the broad social and historical background, which has had a far-reaching impact on the political and military strategy of later generations. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes wars, big and small, with grand ideas and various techniques, so that we can clearly see the war scenes with swords and shadows, among which the descriptions of the battle of Guandu and Battle of Red Cliffs are ups and downs, which is thrilling to read.

The Water Margin is a novel about peasant uprising. Focusing on the clue that officials forced the people to rebel, the book shows the whole process of a group of heroes who could not bear tyranny and oppression rising up and assembling Liangshan until the uprising failed, and writes the heroic epic of peasant uprising in feudal society.

The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a famous novelist in Ming Dynasty. This book is a classic ghost novel by China. It tells the story of the Tang Dynasty mage learning from the west and shows the ancient theme of punishing evil and promoting good. The Journey to the West's book was written in the middle of the Ming Dynasty in the16th century. Since its publication, it has been widely circulated in China and around the world, and has been translated into many languages. For hundreds of years, The Journey to the West has been adapted into various local operas, movies, TV series, cartoons and cartoons with various versions and amazing numbers.

5. A Dream of Red Mansions, also known as The Story of the Stone, is a novel with chapters and chapters in ancient China. The first eighty chapters were written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in Qing Dynasty, and the last forty chapters were written by some anonymous writers and Gao E. Based on the rise and fall of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, the novel shows the true beauty of human nature and tragedy, which can be said to be an epic work that shows the beauty of women and various social conditions in ancient China from all angles.