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This book deeply reveals the rich cultural connotation of ancient Chinese novel texts through a systematic and comprehensive examination of novelists and commentators' knowledge and literacy in Confucianism, history, prophecy, arithmetic, natural history, religion (Buddhism and Taoism), prose (classical prose and eight-legged prose), poetry, parallel poetry, and quxue. It also explores the material selection trends of ancient Chinese novelists. The cultural origins of plot construction, characterization techniques, creative motivations, novel expression forms, artistic systems, etc. Are discussed. The close relationship between the critical theoretical resources of novel critics and their cultural literacy is discussed, which enables us to have a more comprehensive and profound understanding of the cultural motivations for the occurrence, development and generation of ancient Chinese novel creation and criticism.