Cautionary Novels: Romance of the Seventy-two Dynasties (2)
by Anonymous
About This Novel
"The Romance of Characters in the Seventy-Two Dynasties" is also known as "The Romance of Characters in the Four Books of the Seventy-Two Dynasties", with a total of forty volumes. Historical romance novels are a relatively special collection of vernacular novels from the Ming Dynasty. This book was written in the late Ming Dynasty, and the author cannot be verified. Each volume of the novel contains one article, interpreting a story from ancient times. What is unique is that the characters and events written in these forty texts all originate from the "Four Books", and the titles of each volume are also taken from the original sentences in the "Four Books". Because the characters mentioned in the "Four Books" belong to the Spring and Autumn Dynasties, and "there were seventy-two kingdoms in the world at that time" (Volume 35), they are called "Characters of the Seventy-Two Dynasties". The author intends to exhort the world from both positive and negative aspects through the characters' conduct, so this book can be regarded as a better cautionary novel. There are two versions of this book, the Ming version and the Qing Dynasty Guangxu Dingxi Shanghai Shiwanjuanlou lithograph version. Each volume of the Ming edition has a general comment, a further comment and an eyebrow review, and there is a narrative by Taoist Lei at the front of the book. Li Zhuowu is the author of the "Secret Book of Mr. Li Zhuoxiang" and "Reviews and Portraits of Famous Masters" published by Guangxu and Dingxi in the Qing Dynasty.
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