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In an academic context where theoretical methods such as "intertextuality", "classicity" and "genealogy" have attracted much attention, this book not only focuses on the meaning and aesthetic exploration of the individual texts of major classic novels such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Jin Ping Mei", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", "The Scholars" and "Dream of Red Mansions", it is also committed to in-depth discussion and sorting out the relationship between novel texts from the dual-temporal dimensions of "diachronicity" and "synchronicity". It not only focuses on exploring the interpenetration, interrelation ecology and laws of novel texts, but also focuses on discovering the original features of each novel. It not only focuses on reinterpreting the source of the meaning of novel texts, but also pays attention to rediscovering the general rules of novels, striving to construct the general genealogy of the occurrence and development of Chinese novels from the perspective of textual interaction. The so-called "mutuality" of "intertextuality" in this book is not one-way transmission, but multiple "interactions", including "diachronic intertextuality" of vertical inheritance and "synchronic intertextuality" of horizontal interpenetration, as well as complex situations such as "inheritance intertextuality" and "feedback intertextuality" as well as "forward reinforcing intertextuality" and "reverse ironic intertextuality". At the same time, it focuses on adding value from the "intertextuality" between novels, and combines creative methods such as "anxiety of influence", "accumulation", "collection" and "parody", as well as communication methods such as "déjà vu" and "practice makes perfect" to explore its role in the "classicity" and "comprehensiveness" of novels, and then comprehensively explore the changing laws and landscapes of ancient and modern Chinese novels.