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This book is a collection of appreciation essays on "The Plum in the Golden Vase". The author uses comparative literature techniques to place "The Plum in the Golden Vase" in two broad literary dimensions: traditional Chinese literature and world famous works. Starting from representative figures such as Jin (Pan Jinlian), Ping (Li Ping'er), Mei (Pang Chunmei), Ximen Qing, etc., The author focuses on analyzing the realistic art and satire of "The Plum in the Golden Vase". The techniques, attention to the details of daily life, and unique concern for death not only illustrate the many precedents that "The Plum in the Golden Lotus" set for traditional literary classics such as "A Dream of Red Mansions" and "The Scholars", but also draw on the works of many world-class writers such as Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dickens, etc. To explain the outstanding literary height of "The Plum in the Golden Lotus" in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. At the same time, the author understands the unfathomable nature of human nature with a heart similar to that of the author of "The Plum in the Golden Vase". In particular, he explains the non-main characters such as Song Huilian, Count Ying, and Sister Li Gui, giving a thorough insight into the sympathy, mercy and redemption contained in "The Plum in the Golden Vase".

The article is centered on Shen Mingxuan, a graduate of the military academy, who joins the Snow Leopard Commando despite his mother's obstruction. With his love for the special warfare dream and longing for his father, after many difficulties, with the help of Snow Leopard Captain Chen Yufeng and the instructor of the Ministry of Communications Xiong Shuyan, he continues to grow through arduous training and actual combat tasks, and finally faces the test of life and death with his teammates.

This book places "Water Margin" in the context of the war between the Song and Jin Dynasties, and brilliantly uses the method of historical textual research and literary research to break the impression that readers in the past generally believed that the story of Water Margin was based on the Huainan pirates in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and reveals the story of "Water Margin". The origins of "The Biography" are inextricably linked to the history of the Southern Song Dynasty's resistance to the Jin Dynasty, especially to Yue Fei and the loyal people who fought against the Jin Dynasty with civilian armed forces in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Yue Fei's loyalty to the country and his unjust imprisonment were perhaps the biggest driving force behind the creation of "Water Margin". This book is divided into three parts: "The origin of "Water Margin"", "People and things inside and outside "Water Margin"", and "Psychology and art". It uses a lot of pen and ink to examine the relationship between the characters, places, and events in the novel and real history and geography. It examines the tragic deeds of the prototype characters in the novel. It also analyzes the artistic characteristics of "Water Margin" and further proves that the real people and things in history cast a large shadow in "Water Margin".