Introduction of Four Most Famous Books

Introduction of Four Most Famous BooksKingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West. The most famous one is A dream of Red Mansions, which is the best one of the ancient novels. The language in the novel is very exact. All things in the book are credible, even the prescription by the doctors, by now, we can see they are in effect. So the novel is considered to be the zenith of the ancient novels of China.A Dream of Red Mansions was also named The Story of Stone, written in the latter half of the 18th century. It is not only a great Chinese novel but also a gem of world literature. The author is Cao Xueqin. A Dream of Red Mansions describes the life and declining fortunes of a large feudal family. At the heart of the novel is a tragic love story between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai. The author, instead of telling the love story superficially, tries to tap the social origins of the tragedy through probing deeply into the characters' minds and the complicated relationship among them, hence exposing the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudalism and the decadence of the ruling class. The novel goes far beyond the tragic love story, to depict a broad swath of society through describing a series of complicated conflicts and struggles, and ultimately predicting the domed fate of feudal society as a whole. The novel criticizes feudalism, its corrupted politics, marriage system and ethical relationships and passionately denounces its cruelty and inhumanity. In The four most famous ancient novels in China are:A dream of Red Mansions, Three China, A Dream of Red Mansions is praised as an encyclopedia for analyzing feudal society.A Dream of Red Mansions made great artistic achievements. For instance, the novel provides a large number of detailed descriptions of everyday lives. Cao Xueqin attained flawlessness in language. A Dream of Red Mansions reflected high aesthetic quality in many aspects including poetry, drama, art, architecture, and gardens, and medicine. Outlaws of the Marsh(Chinese title Shui Hu Zhuan or The 108 bold heroes), is the second of the four classic Chinese novels. , Outlaws is basically a realistic novel with fantastic overtones. Its basic theme is a satirical look at Chinese government and society during the Song Dynasty. Many of the people mistreated by authority are branded as criminals when they are in fact no more guilty than their judges, often totally innocent. Gradually many of these people drift together and form an outlaw society centered around Liangshan Marsh. From there they exact vengeance on their evil tormenters as well as on any other authority figures deserving of punishment.The plot of the epic falls into two parts. The first half concerns the misadventures of people who, either through no fault of their own, or through their efforts to help other innocents, fall afoul of authority and join the outlaw society. The second half describes the efforts of local and national authorities to stem the growing power of the outlaws.Romance of Three Kingdoms is based closely on historical events (7 parts of facts and 3 parts of fiction); its author is Luo Guanzhong. This book is considered a mainstream history work, not a product of pure imagination or fabrication. Hence, it is extraordinary by itself, because history is the best storyteller.the strife for mastery over the empire in the Three Kingdoms period is the most outstanding struggle. Never before has the world seen so many talents appearing in one same era; a large number of them are important figures who have left permanent impressions in several fields such as military, politics, literature, morality, and pop culture; their names are mentioned in numerous records.the author of the book is one of the most talented novelists China has ever seen. Writing a novel with a main theme is much more difficult than writing the annals. In the annals, each topic is dealt with separately; but in Romance of Three Kingdoms, arranging a huge amount of details into a continuous epic, and the epic being consistent and captivating, is the author's greatest achievement.In Asia, children read the book like they do with fairy tales, whereas politicians embrace it for strategies, scholars’ wisdoms, parents’ guidelines, and everyday people entertainment. A Korean saying goes: "You can discuss life after reading Romance of Three Kingdoms." And the most famous Chinese commentator, Mao Zonggang, had chosen "Seven Beautiful Books", he ranked Romance of Three Kingdoms the first among them.Journey to the West is Originally published anonymously in the 1590s during the Ming Dynasty, and even though no direct evidence of its authorship survives, it is traditionally ascribed to the scholar Wu Chen’en. The work is also known as Monkey from the title of a popular.The novel is a fictionalized and mythologized account of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng's pilgrimage to India during the Tang Dynasty in order to obtain Buddhist religious texts called Sutras. The Bodhisattva Guān Yīn, on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples — namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing — together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang 's horse mount. These four characters have agreed to help Xuanzang as an atonement for past sins. The pilgrims undergo eighty-one calamities of all sorts before bringing the sutras back to the Chinese capital of Chang’an (pres ent-day Xi’an).Part of the novel's enduring popularity comes from the fact that it works on multiple levels: it is a first-rate adventure story, a dispenser of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeying toward India stands for the individual journeying toward enlightenment. It also has much comedy, poetry and word play.。