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"The Black Robe" is the first full-length novel that comprehensively presents the real life of lawyers. "Black Robe" is a worldly legend entangled in the dispute between love and law, sensibility and rationality. It is a work that demonstrates legal justice and promotes social righteousness.

The Japanese captured Nanjing and carried out a massacre in Nanjing. Corpses were everywhere and rivers of blood flowed. The Japanese captured civilians to salvage the corpses and asked the corpse-recovering team to make a batch of kites, which were painted with chrysanthemums and sharp swords, symbolizing Japan's ambition to conquer China and the world... Under the kites of "lost chrysanthemums and broken flowers, broken swords with dull blades", only Shunfeng survived.

"Nine Winds of the Ileum" shows the writer Chen Zhanmin's efforts to stay rooted in the soil and protect the soul while fiercely promoting the narrative techniques of the work. The two clues in the work do not go hand in hand, but are complex and simple, and complement each other. His novel creation has a relatively clear extended line, and his narrative skills are becoming increasingly mature and sophisticated. What is consistent among them is the network of symbols, the feeling of compassion, the intertwined emotions of love and hate for the hometown, and the philosophical meditation on human civilization and living conditions.

In a troubled world, people are walking confusedly on the road, trying to pursue the future they want. Mr. Nuxin is also one of them. He uses his pen to write out this troubled world stroke by stroke, guiding the way forward for all those who pursue success.

"Sexless Partner" depicts in a realistic way three female white-collar workers and a male white-collar worker who live together in close proximity without any sexual contact, opening another window for us in the materialistic urban life; "Tell Laura I Love Her" tells readers with a tip-of-the-tongue love story that the core of life is not fighting, but the tranquility of the soul, and grasping and enjoying the beauty of ordinary and warm life. These two novels are recognized as real white-collar novels. Tang Ying is famous for her Shanghai-themed novels and is considered to be one of the writers who has written the most accurate depictions of Shanghai's urban life. "The biggest capital is her own emotional life-a woman who both remembers the past and teases the future, is familiar with the city, and Shanghai women who are intoxicated with culture. "The Beauty", "We Dance in Winter", "The Year of Reason", "Beauty's Apartment", "The Passionate Generation" and "Pure Salad" are very popular, and some of them have been successfully adapted for the screen. "The Beauty" was adapted into the movie "The Head".

"Northland Love" tells the story of "I", a 28-year-old woman who has just stepped out of campus. Although she received a doctorate from the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, she applied to be the chairman's secretary in the face of the hard reality that "a doctor can travel everywhere, but a master's degree is not as good as a dog." In the days that followed, the female doctor fell into an extramarital affair with the chairman. Facing the cruel life, she was tortured by career, love, pursuit and desire, and finally left her hometown. "The Fortieth Circle" is the writer's "temporary work", which grimly depicts a murder case that occurred in the countryside. The honest and honest Qi Guanglu, whose butcher shop business was booming, actually hacked to death Public Security Bureau Chief Zha Weidong with a Japanese saber. The details behind the case are intertwined, and the various narratives are like "Rashomon". The novel tells the story in detail, revealing the secrets of the case, and deeply explores the inner suffering and struggle of people in the modernization process of China, an ancient agricultural country. Shao Li, chairman of the Henan Provincial Writers Association, won the Lu Xun Literature Award for "Minghui's Christmas" and was shortlisted for the Mao Dun Literature Award for her novel "My Quality of Life". She is regarded as a "leading figure" among contemporary female writers in Henan.

In "Ask a Woman to Guess a Riddle", "I" lied about writing a novel "Looking at the Passage of Time" to send a nurse after a car accident. In order to cover up the lie, "I" began to conceive and write, and got lost in the text of the novel; "Recalling Qin'e" tells the story of the enigmatic woman "Su" who lives in the protagonist's house and interacts with her grandmother, mother and a group of lovers, enlightening "I" is in adolescence; "As if" has a novel that can be read from the inside and outside at the same time. The man sneaks into the land of rice wine from the pages of the book to start a mysterious journey, while the woman sticks to the books in the top floor room and waits for his return... "In the poetic narrative, Chinese writing has gained freedom in the true sense, enriching the understanding of the eternity of time and the instantaneity of existence." Sun Ganlu is a representative writer of the Chinese avant-garde. His main works include the novel "Breath", short story collections "Visiting Dreams", "Letter from the Messenger", "Remembering Qin'e", and essay collection "Dancing on the Ceiling", etc.

"Reporting to the Government" is a meaningful peek into the secrets of remote prisons. In this closed space, prisoners and jailers appear in person, and the tug-of-war between people's hearts begins at any time; "This is a pool of muddy water that will never be clarified," rippling the pain deep in the soul. "The Gunslinger" is only about 10,000 words, looking back on the ups and downs of the "Cultural Revolution". The young man Xia Ruhai misfired his gun and accidentally injured others. His life was wrapped up in fate and he didn't know where he would end up. Han Shaogong's sober and wise writing "seems to be about asking what kind of existence life is and what kind of shape the spirit is in places where existing languages ​​cannot reach." Han Shaogong, a leading figure in the "root-seeking literature" in the 1980s, is also one of the most influential writers in contemporary Chinese literary circles. Han Shaogong has always maintained his awareness of the art of fiction and his great reflection on the real society. His "Daddy", "Maqiao Dictionary", "Hint", "Mountain South and Water North", and "Day and Night Book" are hailed as contemporary classics; his two translated works "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" and "The Record of Panic" have also become literary benchmarks for a generation of young people.

Sun Huifen is a tireless narrator of the long history of rural China. Her main works include the novels "Xiema Villa", "Shangtang Book", "Decameron", the long essay "The Religion of Streets and Roads", and the novel collections "Suffering City", "Suffering Homeland", "Two Women in Xiema Villa", etc. "To Endless Relationships" tells the story of a family of three returning to their hometown to celebrate the New Year, narrating the various entangled family relationships, and providing a delicate and sharp insight into the anxiety and struggle that the "Chinese Year" has brought to the Chinese people; "Narrative of Spring" traces the family relationship from the perspective of the daughter-in-law. The life story of the public, the journey of two generations into the city is full of huge metaphors... Let the world "see our writers speak about China's simple and modern family ties in a literary way, and honestly tell a living and hopeful life."

Liu Jing in "The Gaze Gets Longer and Longer", in order to find his runaway son, gained the superpower to look across mountains and houses, and finally saw his son. Is this an illusion or self-deception? In "Help", Sun Chang is trapped in an ethical dilemma to save someone's life. Who is saving whom? Dongxi's writing "emphasizes the experience and reaction of the body. Every word is verified by the five senses, and every detail has a close feeling." He said: "If the writer's body does not ring first, the reader's back will never tremble." Dongxi, whose original name is Tashiro Lin, is a representative figure of China's "new generation writers". He is the author of novels such as "Tampering with Fate" and "Regrets". His novels "A Slap in the Slap", "Our Father" and "Life Without Language" were all adapted into TV series of the same name; the film "Lovers in Heaven" adapted from his work "Life Without Language" which won the first Lu Xun Literature Award, won the Best Artistic Contribution Award at the 15th Tokyo International Film Festival. He is currently a writer-in-residence at Guangxi University for Nationalities.

"Don't Blink" strings together the stories of three men and a returnee girl with Beijing-style ridicule, and the "gorgeous carnival" of language has the style and charm of a "recalcitrant"; in "Rescuing Mike Huang", the pet dog Mike Huang disappears inexplicably, and his owner Huang Weini leads a team to rescue; the rural girl Yu Caicai was seriously injured in the rescue chase and also needs to be rescued. In the rescue of dogs and people, the injustice and plight of human society are written. Shi Yifeng was born at the junction of the 1970s and 1980s. He grew up in a courtyard in Beijing and graduated from Peking University. Senior editor of "Contemporary" magazine, he is the author of novels "Love in Beijing" and "Fruits Under the Red Flag", novellas "There Is No Longer Chen Jinfang" and "Rescuing Mike Huang", etc., And translated works such as "Trainspotting". Most of the characters in the novel are small-time people with no ambitions. They are known as the "new generation of stubborn characters" because of their playful and humorous Beijing-style language and narrative style that is both solemn and humorous.

Female lawyer Ouyang Mingming has taken on countless cases, but Li Xiaopu and Li Xiaotong in "Justified" are the clients who give her the most mixed feelings. Two brothers who went to deliver goods abroad encountered a rogue company. The younger brother, Li Xiaotong, took excessive measures to save his older brother and was sentenced to prison. The female lawyer defended the case on probation, but what happened next was unexpected. The legitimate defender sadly became a second murderer... Where will the female lawyer's sense of mission go? Does the final defense focus on meaning or results? How will the life of the demobilized cadre who was inexplicably caught up in "corruption" due to hospitality payments in "Innocent Defense" continue? Qiu Shanshan, a famous military writer, has published more than 4 million words of various literary works. He has won the Lu Xun Literature Award, the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Award, and the Bing Xin Prose Award. The representative work "I'm Waiting for You in Heaven" is a tragic heroic hymn on the snow-covered plateau, which received an overwhelming response. The drama of the same name adapted from the novel has won almost all important domestic drama awards. The novel "Spring Grass" is called the "Chinese version of "Axin"" and has become an advanced Chinese textbook at The Ohio State University in the United States.

This is a group of novels that reflect the life of contemporary intellectuals. Li Jiajie, who is middle-aged and successful, has cancer and his days are numbered. At this time, he had no intention of lamenting the passing of his life, but was deliberately and determinedly trying to get the goddess from his college days with his ever-increasing financial chips. Finally, in the early morning of New Year's Day of the new millennium, he announced to his friends that the "plan" was successful, and a dream from the 1980s was shattered. "Each of us thinks about other people's lives deep in our hearts. This is the fundamental paradox of the world." Ge Fei, professor at Tsinghua University and scholarly writer. His works are tenacious, elegant and wise, showing the evolution of the inner spirit of Chinese intellectuals over the past century. He has won many literary awards such as Mao Dun Literature Award, Lu Xun Literature Award, Lao She Literature Award, and Chinese Literature Media Award. He has published novels such as the "Jiangnan Trilogy" ("Human Facial Peach Blossom", "Mountains and Rivers Dreaming", "Spring Ends in Jiangnan"), "Looking at the Spring Breeze", "Enemies", "Edge", "Flag of Desire", etc., And collections of short and medium stories "Brown Birds", "The Feeling of the Rainy Season", "Mona Lisa's Smile", etc. There are also several treatises and collections of essays.

In "The Angel on the Second Street", Zhang Qi's abnormal life after he was released from prison made him nervous and at a loss. He could not find anything meaningful and interesting to do, so he could only use chaotic words and actions to cover up his inner insecurity; in "The Lyrical Age", associate professor Yuan Mei and lecturer Zhang Liang put their energy and "talent" into hooks. In fighting each other, playing tricks on students, they completely lost the sense of morality and responsibility that intellectuals should have, and drifted with the tide in the chaotic mediocre life... Li Er's novels take the daily life of intellectuals as their themes, and thoroughly describe the living conditions of intellectuals who only have knowledge, but appear incompetent and powerless at every turn. Li Er, one of the most important representative writers after Chinese avant-garde literature, has always adhered to the stance of intellectual writing. He is the author of the novels "Coloratura" and "Cherrys on the Pomegranate Tree", and short and medium story collections "The Poetics of the Afternoon", "The Talking Mute", "Out of the Mirror", etc. When German Chancellor Merkel visited China, she gave the German version of the book "Cherrys on the Pomegranate Tree" to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. The book was called "worthy of all the honors it has received" by the Prussian Zeitung.

"City Gossip" depicts the fleeting gossip of urban life with fine brushstrokes: women think their love is sincere and deep, but they can't get rid of superficial moral troubles, which turns out to be an empty delusion; noises from unknown sources make men sleep and eat uneasily. In fact, the noise does not come from the outside, but the frenzied clamor of inner desires. In "Invasion", chastity and sensuality are only one step away, and normal people and schizophrenia patients are only one thought away. What seems to be confusing suspense reveals the inevitable desolation. This kind of desolation is "a harmonious and sparse scenery after being used to seeing countless human beings". Xi Bang, whose original name was Huang Zengli, once used the pen name Zhenli. She is a "novelist with developed senses and aesthetic appeal" who is committed to shaping the various mental and psychological changes brought about by the diseases of the times on women. He has published novels "Details of Love", "The Fourth Kind of Emotion", and anthology novella "Invasion", etc.

"I'm as Cowardly as a Mouse" tells the story of the inner growth of a young man who appears to be extraordinarily cowardly, which is a history of fear, insecurity and whims. The plot of "Accidental Incident" is "brain-burning". Discussions about clues in one murder case lead to another murder case, and the truth seems to never be reached. "Reality" uses pure zero-degree emotional intervention to narrate a story of relatives killing each other in an unusually calm and rational manner. Yu Hua believes that "this is a narrative that starts from a nightmare and arrives at a nightmare. For this reason, some people thought that what was flowing in my veins was not blood, but ice particles." Yu Hua is one of the most important writers in contemporary Chinese literary circles. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages ​​and he has won many international literary awards. From the sharp scalpel-like words in the avant-garde literature period to the perfect combination of simplicity and profound connotation in "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Sells Blood", and even to the perfect combination of simplicity and profound connotation in "Brothers" and "The Seventh Day", Yu Hua's writing has always been irreplaceable and unique. He is also one of the very few writers who enjoys a high reputation both domestically and internationally, in the field of pure literature and in the popular book market.

"Lili" tells the story of the unnameable emotion between two girls, which is graceful, restrained and undercurrent of eroticism. The protagonist Lili is as rich, mysterious and unforgettable as her unique name; "The Magician's Daughter" gives people another strange reading experience: the magician's father is jealous of his daughter's lover , and finally made him disappear in a magic show... "This novelist is indeed violating our principle of authenticity of novels. She uses the experiences of eccentrics to make us see ourselves, the desires and souls in the darkest and most ambiguous places in our hearts." Nalan Miaoshu, whose real name is Zhang Tianyi. Bachelor's degree in English and Master's degree in ancient literature. I love swimming, music, and movies. I like reading and painting but I am not good at it. I usually indulge in imagination - this is the origin of these words in front of you. Published essay collections "The World Stops When I Kiss You" and "Love is a Journey with Water and Stars". The publication of the short story collection "Brown Sugar Box" is considered to "mark the arrival of a new and unique writer".

Under the faint morning light, the vast fields are steaming with water vapor condensed overnight, letting go of the old and absorbing the new. In the distance, a woodpecker hooked itself on a tall ginkgo tree and pecked at it with its long, hard beak, causing pieces of rotten bark to fall to the ground. Outside the gate of Panshan Ancient Temple, an old nun who got up early realized that no one was around. She opened her sharp voice and began to sing in the morning - the king has cultivated the bodhicitta, and God will bless the common people. The sound was like a dove whistle lingering over Kurong Town under the waning moon.

"The Biography of Niu Tianci" uses Lao She's unique humorous style to describe the growth process of a child; an abandoned baby was adopted by a wealthy but childless couple named Niu and named Niu Tianci. My father is a businessman with a so-so philosophy; my mother is a shrewd person who manages the family in an official manner and establishes her authority. Tianci grew up in such a family, and had the guidance of teachers and friendships with friends that had a subtle influence on him. What kind of person has he become? Watch Lao She write "The First Twenty Years of Life", the confusion and turning points of a person's growth

The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and were disillusioned with their ideals. One was a talented young man who dreamed of gaining fame in the literary world with his pen. However, in a society where literature has been reduced to a commodity, he degenerated into a shameless literary slave who sold his soul and was ruined in the literary world and party struggles. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution.

The 10th anniversary of the Booker Prize miracle work "Wolf Hall", the BBC mini-series "Wolf Hall" became popular around the world and won the British Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, two top European and American literary awards. The most glorious chapter in British history - the Tudor Dynasty under Henry VIII , undercurrents are surging inside and outside the palace, and the Reformation is about to begin. A nobody who is born to be a winner, from the son of a blacksmith to the pinnacle of power - with his life as a bet, wandering in the cruel and merciless palace arena, how will his fate end? In this dark historical stage, everyone is in danger, and one step could lead to death. However, the protagonist Thomas Cromwell is an exception - he is cold and rational, thoughtful, and can maneuver among the monarch, the church, and the nobility with ease; he is considerate and affectionate, and treats his lovers, relatives, and friends with meticulous care and meticulous care. "Wolf Hall" takes the divorce case of Henry VIII and Queen Catherine as the starting point. With the loss of the Cardinal Archbishop, Queen Catherine is deposed, Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn and a series of events... There are turmoils inside and outside the palace, which finally ends with the death of Thomas More; Cromwell carefully planned and took every step, and finally became the most popular minister. The novel takes Cromwell's life and the court of Henry VIII as the main thread, weaving a huge web that reflects the political, religious and economic landscape of England in the early 16th century.

"Beautiful Loser" came out in the mid-1960s and is known as Canada's first postmodern novel. It is the most provocative and unruly work of Cohen, who is a poet, writer, singer, painter, and monk. He is known as the "Byron of rock and roll." The novel is set in Montreal in the 1960s and outlines a love triangle: an unknown scholar dedicated to the study of Indian tribes, his wife Edith, the last descendant of a certain Indian tribe, and the scholar's homosexual lover F. The three are entwined in a tangled relationship linked by sexual compulsion and the legend of a seventeenth-century Indian saint named Katherine Tinkawiser. The novel sometimes talks in sleep and sometimes howls, expressing people's desire for order and the terror of spiritual loneliness. The work is weird and exaggerated, but also full of fun; the spirit of the 1960s embodied, such as free and novel sex, exploratory experiments such as revolution, are all the characters in the book experience, a kind of super hippie, which is regarded as a treasure by a generation of readers looking for spiritual leaders. This work breaks through the traditional form of the novel and provides the rather conservative literary world in Canada with the possibility of bohemianism. It is one of the most important novels in the Canadian literary world.

The novel takes Xiong Kewu, a revolutionary pioneer in the late Qing Dynasty, as the protagonist. By describing the several revolutionary armed uprisings launched by people with lofty ideals represented by him in Luzhou, Chengdu, Xufu, Guang'an, Jiading, Pingshan and other places in Sichuan a hundred years ago, the novel truly reproduces the ups and downs and magnificent events of 1911. The novel successfully depicts heroic figures such as Sun Yat-sen, Xiong Kewu, Dan Maoxin, Xie Fengqi, Sheying, and Yu Peilun, and eulogizes their struggle to overthrow the feudal monarchy, following successive defeats, fighting without fear of sacrifice, and fighting bravely.

The imaginative adventure of Haruki Murakami and Mizumaru Anzai will accompany you to deconstruct and reconstruct this ordinary world; they are keenly aware of all the subtlest human perceptions, resorting to words with ease, thoughtful and cunning, as fascinating as the chuckle behind life; weird metaphors, chaotic... Memories and hidden crises peek into an ordinary corner of Murakami's metaphorical world through the tip of his pen; the writing is simple yet interesting, and after reading it you can forget all the troubles in life and laugh out loud in Murakami's humor; every ultra-short story written by Murakami-kun is full of interest. Every time it's like opening a magic box, not knowing what will come out, and my heart is pounding. While my heart was beating, I felt a little weird and funny. --Anxi Water Pills. "Midnight Spider Monkey" is a 36-part short and exquisite novel with strange ideas and humor.

"Pandora's Box" written by Osamu Dazai includes two works: "Pandora's Box" and "Villon's Wife". "Pandora's Box" reveals the deep-seated depression of the author Osamu Dazai, his consistent confusion about the future, and his thoughts about life and death. However, unlike the coldness of "Disqualification in the World", the tone of "Pandora's Box" is warm, playful and bright, with an obvious translucent brilliance, and is filled with longing for the future. "Wei Yong's Wife" is a collection of short stories by the author. The title of the book is Dazai's famous story. "Wei Yong's Wife" is a metaphor for "the wife of a wanton man". A woman kept the family together and worked as a maid to pay off her husband's debts when her husband became an alcoholic, owed money, eloped with a woman, and finally committed suicide by diving into the water. In 2009, at the 33rd World Film Festival held in Montreal, Canada, the film "Villon's Wife" directed by Negishi Yoshitaro and starring Matsu Takako and Asano Tadanobu won the Best Director Award.

"Setting Sun" (1947) is a very important work in Japan's post-war literary world. It has set a best-selling record for post-war literary works. The term "Setting Sun Clan" is widely known as a pronoun for declining aristocrats. The work shows the declining social status of the descendants of the nobles after the war and the dilemma of losing their glory. It can also be said to be Dazai's elegy to the declining nobles. "Disqualification in the World" (1948) is the most outstanding work in Dazai's literature. It was written before committing suicide and is his final work. It is also the "most profound point of arrival" in Dazai's literature (Okuno Keno). It depicts a young intellectual with an eccentric temperament, who suffered from the harshness of the world, indulged in wine and sex, and finally destroyed himself.

"Disqualified" is an influential novel by the famous Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai. This book was published in 1948. It is an autobiographical novel. The delicate autobiography reveals a unique decadence and a destructive masterpiece. This book contains various experiences in his short life and his inner confusion and struggle. Even though time has changed, the deepest despair still comes from the inner confusion, and this confusion and hesitation almost ran through the youth of Dazai Osamu and each of us. Therefore, "Disqualification in the World" is a cruel and eternal youth literature. However, after the confused soul was broken, some people chose to continue life in the hustle and bustle, and Osamu Dazai left poetically. From his works, you can understand the hesitation and despair of the past, and see the weak and eager self in our hearts.

The whole book is based on the protagonist's "narrow escape" experience, starting from his father's funeral to the end of his business failure. Through this character's encounters and knowledge over the past 20 years, it extensively reveals the dark reality of the late Qing Dynasty from around the Sino-French War in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) to around the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), and depicts the crazy aggression of imperialism from the side. The work contains more than 200 "strange situations" and outlines a ghostly world filled with "snakes, rats", "jackals" and "ghosts". Among the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, they reflected a wide range of life, including not only the officialdom, but also shopping malls and foreign markets, as well as medicine, horoscopes, and the three religions and nine streams. They revealed the political situation, social fashion, moral outlook, and world conditions at the time, so they were labeled "social novels" when they were published.

The whole book is based on the protagonist's "narrow escape" experience, starting from his father's funeral to the end of his business failure. Through this character's encounters and knowledge over the past 20 years, it extensively reveals the dark reality of the late Qing Dynasty from around the Sino-French War in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) to around the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), and depicts the crazy aggression of imperialism from the side. The work contains more than 200 "strange situations" and outlines a ghostly world filled with "snakes, rats", "jackals" and "ghosts". Among the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, they reflected a wide range of life, including not only the officialdom, but also shopping malls and foreign markets, as well as medicine, horoscopes, and the three religions and nine streams. They revealed the political situation, social fashion, moral outlook, and world conditions at the time, so they were labeled "social novels" when they were published.

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Most of the themes of "The Surprise at the Second Moment" are taken from "Taiping Guangji", "Qidong Wild Words", "Yi Jian Zhi", "Jian Deng Xin Hua", "Jian Deng Yu Hua" and other classics. After reprocessing and re-creation by the author Ling Shuchu, it has been integrated with Ling's own ideological personality and reflected Ling's own artistic conception and style. The stories in this book reflect the broader social life of the citizen class in the late Ming Dynasty, and all themes of human ethics and morality are more or less involved. At the same time, internal and external troubles arose in the late Ming Dynasty, and social conflicts became more complex and acute. This situation is more fully demonstrated in "The Surprise at the Second Moment" than in "The Surprise at the First Moment", such as the psychological tilt caused by the disparity between the rich and the poor, the social unrest caused by bureaucratic corruption, the resistance of young men and women aroused by the feudal marriage system, the challenge of the emerging business class to the order of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the rebellion of human desires against natural principles and Taoism due to the expansion of lustful world trends, etc., Which outlines a bleak picture of the declining society in the late Ming Dynasty.

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Most of the themes of "The Surprise at the Second Moment" are taken from "Taiping Guangji", "Qidong Wild Words", "Yi Jian Zhi", "Jian Deng Xin Hua", "Jian Deng Yu Hua" and other classics. After reprocessing and re-creation by the author Ling Shuchu, it has been integrated with Ling's own ideological personality and reflected Ling's own artistic conception and style. The stories in this book reflect the broader social life of the citizen class in the late Ming Dynasty, and all themes of human ethics and morality are more or less involved. At the same time, internal and external troubles arose in the late Ming Dynasty, and social conflicts became more complex and acute. This situation is more fully demonstrated in "The Surprise at the Second Moment" than in "The Surprise at the First Moment", such as the psychological tilt caused by the disparity between the rich and the poor, the social unrest caused by bureaucratic corruption, the resistance of young men and women aroused by the feudal marriage system, the challenge of the emerging business class to the order of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and the rebellion of human desires against natural principles and Taoism due to the expansion of lustful world trends, etc., Which outlines a bleak picture of the declining society in the late Ming Dynasty.

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The whole book is based on the protagonist's "narrow escape" experience, starting from his father's funeral to the end of his business failure. Through this character's encounters and knowledge over the past 20 years, it extensively reveals the dark reality of the late Qing Dynasty from around the Sino-French War in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) to around the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), and depicts the crazy aggression of imperialism from the side. The work contains more than 200 "strange situations" and outlines a ghostly world filled with "snakes, rats", "jackals" and "ghosts". Among the novels of the late Qing Dynasty, they reflected a wide range of life, including not only the officialdom, but also shopping malls and foreign markets, as well as medicine, horoscopes, and the three religions and nine streams. They revealed the political situation, social fashion, moral outlook, and world conditions at the time, so they were labeled "social novels" when they were published.

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"The Surprise at the First Moment" is a popular book with 40 short stories in total. It describes many fascinating stories in the form of a "parallel script" that is popular among the people. One is that a businessman rises from bad luck to wealth, and a scholar rises from poverty. Become famous after being cold; honest officials are like gods in solving cases, corrupt officials are like tigers in perverting the law; villains are committing adultery and soliciting lawsuits, and swindlers are cheating on each other; such as "The man in transit met the red in Dongting by chance, the Persian finger broke the dragon's shell", "Li Gongzuo cleverly interpreted the words in the dream, Xie Xiao'e cleverly captured the thief on the ship", etc. The second is works describing love and marriage, describing how young people pursue faithful love, and how feudal ethics create marriage tragedies, such as "Zhang Liuer cleverly creates a enchantment formation, Lu Huiniang decides to fight to the death", "Drinking with wine, Zhao Ni is obsessed with flowers, and the machine is hidden, and the scholar complains", "The light of the boudoir's heart is strong, and the flag and bell of victory are reported in the jail", etc. The language is simple and concise; the plot is twists and turns, confusing, yet reasonable; the characters' inner thoughts are described in detail, and the artistic image is lifelike. It has always been highly praised.

"The Surprise at the First Moment" is a popular book with 40 short stories in total. It describes many fascinating stories in the form of a "parallel script" that is popular among the people. One is that a businessman rises from bad luck to wealth, and a scholar rises from poverty. Become famous after being cold; honest officials are like gods in solving cases, corrupt officials are like tigers in perverting the law; villains are committing adultery and soliciting lawsuits, and swindlers are cheating on each other; such as "The man in transit met the red in Dongting by chance, the Persian finger broke the dragon's shell", "Li Gongzuo cleverly interpreted the words in the dream, Xie Xiao'e cleverly captured the thief on the ship", etc. The second is works describing love and marriage, describing how young people pursue faithful love, and how feudal ethics create marriage tragedies, such as "Zhang Liuer cleverly creates a enchantment formation, Lu Huiniang decides to fight to the death", "Drinking with wine, Zhao Ni is obsessed with flowers, and the machine is hidden, and the scholar complains", "The light of the boudoir's heart is strong, and the flag and bell of victory are reported in the jail", etc. The language is simple and concise; the plot is twists and turns, confusing, yet reasonable; the characters' inner thoughts are described in detail, and the artistic image is lifelike. It has always been highly praised.

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"The Surprise at the First Moment" is a popular book with 40 short stories in total. It describes many fascinating stories in the form of a "parallel script" that is popular among the people. One is that a businessman rises from bad luck to wealth, and a scholar rises from poverty. Become famous after being cold; honest officials are like gods in solving cases, corrupt officials are like tigers in perverting the law; villains are committing adultery and soliciting lawsuits, and swindlers are cheating on each other; such as "The man in transit met the red in Dongting by chance, the Persian finger broke the dragon's shell", "Li Gongzuo cleverly interpreted the words in the dream, Xie Xiao'e cleverly captured the thief on the ship", etc. The second is works describing love and marriage, describing how young people pursue faithful love, and how feudal ethics create marriage tragedies, such as "Zhang Liuer cleverly creates a enchantment formation, Lu Huiniang decides to fight to the death", "Drinking with wine, Zhao Ni is obsessed with flowers, and the machine is hidden, and the scholar complains", "The light of the boudoir's heart is strong, and the flag and bell of victory are reported in the jail", etc. The language is simple and concise; the plot is twists and turns, confusing, yet reasonable; the characters' inner thoughts are described in detail, and the artistic image is lifelike. It has always been highly praised.

"The Scholars" is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. It describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the eight-part imperial examination system. For example, it is written that Zhou Jin and Fan Jin spent their entire lives trying to pass the examination, and even when their beards turned gray, they still failed to pass the examination. Although life was extremely difficult, he still couldn't forget the imperial examination. Zhou Jin passed by an examination room and went in to watch. He was touched by a lifetime of bitterness and pain. He burst into tears and was so sad that he could not help but feel miserable. Later, with the help of some small businessmen, he took the exam and won the sympathy of the examiner, and things turned around. When he passed the exam, those who had ridiculed him in the past came to flatter him and praised him as the most knowledgeable person. Another example is Fan Jin. Before he passed the imperial examination, his family was so poor that he had no rice to cook with, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned that he had won the election, he was so happy that he became a madman. Fortunately, his father-in-law Hu Tuhu slapped him and he regained consciousness. At this time, the local squires and other prominent people all looked at him with admiration. Some gave him houses and some gave him property. Fan Jin's life immediately changed... And so on, which reflected the corruption of the secular customs at that time. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officialdom at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals.

"The Scholars" is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. It describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the eight-part imperial examination system. For example, it is written that Zhou Jin and Fan Jin spent their entire lives trying to pass the examination, and even when their beards turned gray, they still failed to pass the examination. Although life was extremely difficult, he still couldn't forget the imperial examination. Zhou Jin passed by an examination room and went in to watch. He was touched by a lifetime of bitterness and pain. He burst into tears and was so sad that he could not help but feel miserable. Later, with the help of some small businessmen, he took the exam and won the sympathy of the examiner, and things turned around. When he passed the exam, those who had ridiculed him in the past came to flatter him and praised him as the most knowledgeable person. Another example is Fan Jin. Before he passed the imperial examination, his family was so poor that he had no rice to cook with, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned that he had won the election, he was so happy that he became a madman. Fortunately, his father-in-law Hu Tuhu slapped him and he regained consciousness. At this time, the local squires and other prominent people all looked at him with admiration. Some gave him houses and some gave him property. Fan Jin's life immediately changed... And so on, which reflected the corruption of the secular customs at that time. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officialdom at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals.

"The Scholars" is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. It describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the eight-part imperial examination system. For example, it is written that Zhou Jin and Fan Jin spent their entire lives trying to pass the examination, and even when their beards turned gray, they still failed to pass the examination. Although life was extremely difficult, he still couldn't forget the imperial examination. Zhou Jin passed by an examination room and went in to watch. He was touched by a lifetime of bitterness and pain. He burst into tears and was so sad that he could not help but feel miserable. Later, with the help of some small businessmen, he took the exam and won the sympathy of the examiner, and things turned around. When he passed the exam, those who had ridiculed him in the past came to flatter him and praised him as the most knowledgeable person. Another example is Fan Jin. Before he passed the imperial examination, his family was so poor that he had no rice to cook with, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned that he had won the election, he was so happy that he became a madman. Fortunately, his father-in-law Hu Tuhu slapped him and he regained consciousness. At this time, the local squires and other prominent people all looked at him with admiration. Some gave him houses and some gave him property. Fan Jin's life immediately changed... And so on, which reflected the corruption of the secular customs at that time. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officialdom at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals.

"The Scholars" is a novel with intellectuals as the main description object, and it is also a typical satirical novel. It describes some images of Confucian scholars who were deeply poisoned by the eight-part imperial examination system. For example, it is written that Zhou Jin and Fan Jin spent their entire lives trying to pass the examination, and even when their beards turned gray, they still failed to pass the examination. Although life was extremely difficult, he still couldn't forget the imperial examination. Zhou Jin passed by an examination room and went in to watch. He was touched by a lifetime of bitterness and pain. He burst into tears and was so sad that he could not help but feel miserable. Later, with the help of some small businessmen, he took the exam and won the sympathy of the examiner, and things turned around. When he passed the exam, those who had ridiculed him in the past came to flatter him and praised him as the most learned person. Another example is Fan Jin. Before he passed the imperial examination, his family was so poor that he had no rice to cook with, so he went to the market to sell an old hen. When he learned that he had won the election, he was so happy that he became crazy. Fortunately, his father-in-law, Hu Tuhu, slapped him and he regained consciousness. At this time, the local squires and other prominent people all looked at him with admiration. Some gave him houses and some gave him property. Fan Jin's life immediately changed... And so on, which reflected the corruption of the secular customs at that time. On the one hand, it truly reveals the process and reasons for the corruption of human nature, thereby deeply criticizing and ridiculing the corruption of officialdom at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, and the hypocrisy of ethics; on the other hand, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves, thus embodying the author's ideals.