Library

"A Dream of Red Mansions", also known as "The Story of the Stone", is revered as the first of the four classic Chinese classics. It is not only the first work of Chinese classical novels, it can be called an encyclopedia of Chinese feudal society, a master of traditional culture, and a shining pearl in the ocean of world literature. As a human novel with global influence, the book reveals the crisis of the feudal apocalypse through the tragedy of the family, the tragedy of the daughter and the tragedy of the protagonist's life. The whole book takes the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue as the background, takes the family trivial matters and boudoir leisurely affairs of the Jia family as the context, takes the love and marriage stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai as the main line, and focuses on describing the process of the Jia Jiarong and Ning families from prosperity to decline.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" describes the historical events of nearly 105 years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty. It mainly describes wars. It tells the story of the war between the heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the political and military struggles among the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu. In the end, Sima Yan unified the three kingdoms and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions in the Three Kingdoms era, summarizes the great historical changes of this era, and creates a group of all-powerful heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

A "Dream of Red Mansions" in its original form suitable for today's readers. You no longer need to read so many versions to experience the fun of reading "Dream of Red Mansions". The editing of this edition took three years. The first 80 chapters were completely revised based on the fat version, and the last 40 chapters of Cheng Gao's version were used to complete the full text. It absorbs the important research results of red studies in recent decades and refers to several representative contemporary school textbooks. While drawing on the best of others, it also makes a large number of corrections. The author's original writing is fully restored in terms of words, text structure, and language style. It is another major breakthrough in the 226-year publishing history of "Dream of Red Mansions".

This book is based on the Shidetang edition of the Ming Dynasty, and is based on the Ming editions such as the Yang Minzhai edition, "Tang Sanzang's Journey to the West", and "Tang Sanzang's Complete Life Biography"; the Qing editions such as "The Book of Journey to the West" and "Xin Shuo Journey to the West" (Weiqianzhai edition). The purpose of this book is to It is necessary to better preserve the essence of this classic masterpiece, such as the large number of poems deleted from "Journey to the West". Although some of them are indeed rough in writing and lack literary grace, there are also some poems, especially haiku poems, that reflect the style of popular folk literature and art. After all, "Journey to the West" evolved from popular literature and art. In order for today's readers to fully and completely understand this classic novel, its simplicity should be appropriately preserved in the revision.

This ancient edition can be found in the Jiajing Renwu edition. Most of the current "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the Mao version revised by the literary critics Mao Lun and Mao Zonggang in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties based on Luo Guanzhong's ancient version. Because the Mao version has been circulating for a long time and has many advantages in writing, it is easier for the general public to read, so it has become the current version. Mao's version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has undergone great changes in plot, not only additions and deletions, but also rectification, revision of diction, and replacement of poems. Compared with the original work, the orthodox concepts of respecting Liu and suppressing Cao and the idea of ​​destiny have been significantly strengthened, and the performance skills and text modification have also been improved.

"Water Margin" is a must-read classic novel for Chinese people. It has twists and turns in the plot, intense story conflicts and superb narrative skills, creating one hundred and eight lifelike characters with different personalities. It is not only a literary classic, but also has a profound impact on Chinese culture in terms of art, philosophy, thought, etc., And is an indispensable part of Chinese traditional culture.

This book is based on the editions compiled by Mao Lun and Mao Zonggang, the authoritative father and son of the Qing Dynasty. It also takes into account important ancient editions such as the Jiajing edition of Wanjuanshulou edition to preserve the essence and original appearance of the important literary classic "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the greatest extent. There are three main aspects of annotations: The first is annotations on historical figures and historical allusions, and try to explain the sources. The second is the annotation of idioms and allusions as well as the edicts, memorials, appeals, letters, etc. Quoted in the book. The annotations strive to be accurate, concise and to the point. Third, in the book, official names such as Zhongjuan, Changshi, Huangmen, Lang, Fang, Zhijinwu, Shenlu Shangshushi, Zhizhong Erqianshi, and place names such as Wu, Hui, Xichongguo, etc. May be difficult to understand or may easily cause misunderstandings, so they are also annotated.

One of China's four major classical works, a classic work of world myths and legends! "Journey to the West" uses rich and fantastic imagination to describe the journey of the four masters and apprentices on their way to the West, and their adventures and struggles against the harsh mountains and rivers. It also visualizes the numerous difficulties and dangers they experienced as the eighty-one difficulties set by demons and monsters. It uses animals transformed into sentient spirits to vividly express the dangers of the ruthless mountains and rivers. By subduing demons, it praises the people's fighting spirit in overcoming difficulties and encourages people to fight actively, never lose heart, and persevere to achieve their goals.

U

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", also known as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is the most famous and outstanding long-length historical novel in the history of Chinese novels. The author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was Luo Guanzhong, who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Before it was written, "The Story of the Three Kingdoms" had experienced hundreds of years of historical development. Luo Guanzhong wrote this magnificent work on the basis of mass legends and creations of folk artists, and based on Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" and after tremendous creative labor.

Pearl S. Buck, a Chinese heroic romance novel highly praised by foreigners, Nobel Prize winner in Literature and American female writer: "The work "Water Margin" has always been great and full of significance for all mankind, even though centuries have passed since its publication." "Encyclopedia Britannica": "The novel "Water Margin" in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty received universal acclaim because it appeared in the ranks of historical masterpieces in a popular spoken form. It is considered the most meaningful literary work."

V

The Chinese heroic and legendary novels that are highly praised by foreigners, Nobel Prize winner and American female writer Pearl S. Buck: "The work "Water Margin" has always been great and full of significance for all mankind, even though it has changed since its publication. Several centuries have passed." "Encyclopedia Britannica": "The novel "Water Margin" in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties has received universal acclaim for its emergence in the ranks of historical masterpieces in popular spoken language. It is considered to be the most significant literary work. "

U

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", also known as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is the most famous and outstanding long-length historical novel in the history of Chinese novels. The author of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was Luo Guanzhong, who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Before it was written, "The Story of the Three Kingdoms" had experienced hundreds of years of historical development. Luo Guanzhong wrote this magnificent work on the basis of mass legends and creations of folk artists, and based on Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" and after tremendous creative labor.

During the Xuanhe period of the Northern Song Dynasty (around 1119-1121), Song Jiang and others gathered together to revolt. This matter is reflected in "History of the Song Dynasty", Song people's notes, Song and Yuan dramas and dramas. Shi Naian compiled, selected, processed and created "Water Margin" stories from history books, legends, dramas and dramas since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and wrote "Water Margin".

This book is a collection of personal works. The content includes four parts: selected lyrics, selected poems, selected prose poems, and evaluation articles. The lyrics created by the author were once famous in the lyrics creation world. Her works have been used in performances ranging from CCTV's Spring Festival Gala to provincial and municipal TV stations and song and dance theaters. Among them, the most famous ones include: The Love of Children on the Yellow River, A Side of Earth in the Yellow River, and The Long Flow of the Yellow River.

The stories in this book are very familiar to people, and the most exciting chapters, such as Sun Wukong causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace, Zhu Bajie and Gao Laozhuang marrying a wife, beating the Bone Demon, borrowing a banana fan, etc., Are well-known to every household, including women and children. For hundreds of years, it has attracted generations of people with its strong artistic charm, making it one of the Chinese people's favorite classical masterpieces. "Journey to the West" mainly describes the story of Monkey King protecting Monk Tang from going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures and going through eighty-one hardships.

The stories in this book are very familiar to people, and the most exciting chapters, such as Sun Wukong causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace, Zhu Bajie and Gao Laozhuang marrying a wife, beating the Bone Demon, borrowing a banana fan, etc., Are well-known to every household, including women and children. For hundreds of years, it has attracted generations of people with its strong artistic charm, making it one of the Chinese people's favorite classical masterpieces. "Journey to the West" mainly describes the story of Monkey King protecting Monk Tang from going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures and going through eighty-one hardships.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, is my country's first full-length retrospective historical romance novel and a classic of historical romance novels. "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" mainly describes wars, reflecting the political and military struggles of the three dynasties of Shu, Han, Wei, and Wu. It also reflects rich historical content. The names of characters, geographical names, and major events are basically the same as those in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms." "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on the one hand reflects the true history of the Three Kingdoms; on the other hand, it exaggerates, beautifies, and vilifies the characters of the Three Kingdoms to a certain extent based on the actual social conditions of the Ming Dynasty. It not only reflects the true appearance of the history of the Three Kingdoms more truly, but also reflects many social contents of the Ming Dynasty.

"Journey to the West" is the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels about gods and demons. The book tells the story of Monk Tang, his master and his disciples, who conquered demons and demons all the way, and went through ninety-nine and eighty-one years of hard work to obtain the scriptures. The author delicately and profoundly creates four extremely classic images: the compassionate, generous but weak and pedantic master Tang Seng; the rebellious and powerful Sun Wukong; the selfish, cunning, lazy and lazy Zhu Bajie;

The full name of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", written by Luo Guanzhong, a novelist in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. It is China's first full-length retrospective historical romance novel, one of the four classic Chinese classics, and a classic of historical romance novels. [1] The novel is based on history, based on Confucianism, and emphasizes "loyalty"; it focuses on describing wars, telling the history of more than a hundred years from the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Wei, Shu Han and Wu Kingdoms, and the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, and depicts numerous heroes. The book's narrative is "according to official history, collecting novels, proving the diction, and understanding the art." The combination of fiction and reality makes the song as wonderful as it can be. This book is an abbreviated version of the original work and is suitable for teenagers to read.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" takes the tragedy of love and marriage between Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and Xue Baochai as the main line, and the rise and fall of the four major families of Jia, Wang, Shi, and Xue as the background. It describes the various complicated conflicts of the feudal aristocratic families, creates a series of tragic images of nobles, commoners, and slave-born women, exposes the corruption and evil of the feudal aristocratic class and its rule, and tortuously reflects the historical trend of the inevitable collapse and decline of feudal society. The novel comprehensively and truly displays the vast and complex social life, and can be called an encyclopedia of social life in the late feudal society of my country. The work deeply reflects on the decadence and decadence of marriage, morality, culture, and education in feudal society, praises the rebels of the feudal aristocracy and the free, beautiful, and ethical love, and embodies the preliminary democratic thoughts of pursuing individual freedom.

"Water Margin" is the first famous vernacular novel in ancient China that reflects the peasant uprising. It is created, processed and connected on the basis of stories about the Water Margin in "The Legacy of Xuanhe" and folk oral legends, scripts and dramas. The whole book reflects the entire process of a peasant revolution in feudal society from its birth, development to failure in a concentrated and multi-angle way using realism. Among them, the two parts of forcing the enemy and resisting the army are the most exciting. The most outstanding artistic achievement of the work is the successful portrayal of the characters. The novel successfully creates a series of lifelike characters and has extremely high artistic value in the history of literature. Among the one hundred and eight generals alone, more than thirty have distinctive personalities, among which Lin Chong, Li Cheng, Lu Zhishen, Song Jiang, Wu Song, etc. Are the most distinctive. In addition, the story of this book is full of twists and turns, the language is vivid and powerful, and the plot is tense and closely linked. The battle scenes, such as the three attacks on Zhujiazhuang, the big defeat of Zengtou City, and the three defeats of Gaoqiu, are vivid and fascinating.

"Water Margin" is my country's first chapter-length novel with the theme of peasant uprising. It is a model work of ancient heroic romance novels. For hundreds of years, it has been deeply loved by the people of our country and even the world.

"A Dream of Red Mansions", also known as "The Story of the Stone", is the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels and ranks first among the "Four Great Classical Chinese Novels". It is generally believed that the first eighty chapters of the book were written by the Qing Dynasty novelist Cao Xueqin, and the last forty chapters were continued by Gao E. This masterpiece in the history of Chinese literature has become a wonder in the history of Chinese classical literature with its rich ideological content, great artistic achievements and far-reaching cultural influence.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is based on the four major families of Jia, Wang, Shi and Xue, with the love story of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the main line. It revolves around the emotional entanglement of the two main characters and describes a series of love stories of young men and women inside and outside the Grand View Garden. At the same time, by depicting the social environment in which these love tragedies occurred, it involves issues such as feudal society's political laws, patriarchy, women, morality, marriage, etc., Revealing the state of the world at the end of feudal society, exposing the corruption and evil of the feudal aristocracy and its rule, praising the rebellious characters who pursue the light, and declaring that this society will inevitably perish through the tragic fate of the rebels. It can be said that "A Dream of Red Mansions" is an encyclopedia of social life in the late feudal society of my country.

Wen Yajun is currently the editor-in-chief of a literary magazine at the Beijing Armed Police Headquarters. He is the author of six novels, including Pseudo Life, and seven novel collections, including Hard Snow and Carrying Water. He won the 3rd Lu Xun Literary Award, the 11th Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award, "Selected Novels", "Chinese Writers" and "Shanghai Literature" and other publication awards, and was selected into the ranking list of the Chinese Novel Society. Member of Chinese Writers Association.

Dreaming back to the bumpy and difficult journey to the west, swimming in the fairyland of gods and demons, hunting for treasures in the Dragon Palace with Sun Dasheng, causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and revising the book of life and death; going to the West with Tang Monk to learn Buddhist scriptures, and seeing the customs and customs on the way; there are also the delicious and lazy Zhu Bajie and the hard-working Sha Seng! Stealing ginseng fruit, defeating the White Bone Demon three times, subduing the demon in the Lotus Cave, subduing the red boy, adventures in the land of daughters... You have to read the most classic myths and legends in the world.

China's first full-length retrospective historical romance novel mainly describes wars and reflects the political and military struggles between the three political groups of Wu, Shu and Wei. On a broad background, scenes of ups and downs and majestic war scenes were staged, successfully portraying the images of popular characters such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, etc.

"A Dream of Red Mansions" is known as "the encyclopedia of my country's feudal society". It centers on the daily life of the Rongguo Mansion, takes the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line, and takes the history of the four Jinling aristocratic families, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the inevitable trend that the feudal society at the end of the road will eventually perish.