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"History of Legends of the Ming and Qing Dynasties" takes the times as a clue and systematically examines the development and evolution of legends in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The first part details the origin, the establishment of the system and the variation of the theme; the second part discusses in detail the popularity of the legend from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty; the third part examines the prosperity of the legend from the Shunzhi period to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty; the fourth part examines the end of the legend from the late Kangxi period to the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty; the fifth part examines the wandering and helplessness of the legend from the first year of Daoguang to the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty. Overall, this is a masterpiece of research on the legends of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was widely praised by the academic community after the first edition was published.

Guided by the philosophy of historical materialism, this book mainly adopts the research methods of history, sociology, and culture. With vivid and rich examples and precise and clear analysis, this book concisely outlines the basic types of ancient Chinese literati groups, their composition and cultural functions, and focuses on examining the relationship between various types of literati groups and literary styles. Literary groups in ancient China included several types: academic factions, literary acolytes, literati cliques, literati societies and literary schools. In ancient Chinese society, various types of literati groups took literary activities as their main activity. Literary groups and literary styles were closely connected through the intermediary of group psychology and group consciousness. The group consciousness and group psychology possessed by literati groups often initiated or affected the literary style of an era, and caused the herd phenomenon of group literature, which had a huge impact on the changes in literature.

This book systematically summarizes at the theoretical level the sophisticated analysis of ancient Chinese literary critics on the composition, characteristics, and functions of each level of the basic structure of style. It clearly outlines the unique basic features of ancient Chinese stylistic morphology from three aspects: stylistic classification as a mode of behavior, stylistic classification as a text mode, and stylistic classification within an article system. Moreover, through a detailed examination of the biographical writing style of "Book of the Later Han" and the compilation style of "Selected Works", the principles and rules of ancient Chinese style classification are discussed, as well as the cultural background of the generation of style classification.

This book carefully selects 18 famous ancient texts, which are the result of the author's "heart" experience of ancient texts. Restore the life situations of the ancient texts, interpret the inner world of the ancients, and reveal various emotions in the texts, including feelings about family and country, some affectionate styles, or criticism of current affairs... The author of this book takes us into the emotional world of the ancients with the help of emotional and clear words, and with the help of beautiful articles.