Its author is an urban life novel written by Jiuxiao Honghu.
Brief introduction to novels
Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete stories and environmental descriptions. The word "novel" comes from Zhuangzi Foreign Things.
Character, plot and environment are the three elements of a novel. The plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some also include prologue and ending. Environment includes natural environment and social environment.
Novels can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and mini-novels (short stories) according to their length and capacity. According to the performance content, it can be divided into myth, xian Xia, martial arts, science fiction, suspense, ancient biography, contemporary novels and so on. According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to language forms, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels.
Methods of portraying characters in novels: psychological description, action description, language description, appearance description, expression description and profile description. At the same time, novel is a writing method.
Novel, poetry, prose and drama are also called "four major literary genres".
The origin of this novel
The word "novel" first appeared in Zhuangzi Foreign Things: "Decorative novels are far from county orders. Zhuangzi's so-called "novel" refers to trivial remarks, which is far from the concept of novel.
Until the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huan Tan's new theory: "Novelists combine small words and take metaphors, make simple books, manage their bodies and homes, and have considerable words. After Ban Gu listed "novelists" as ten types in History of Han Literature and Art, he defined them as: "Novelists flow, built for officials, talked in the streets, and heard from hearsay [4]. "Just slightly similar to the meaning of the novel.
The biggest feature of China's novels is that there are two different novel systems, classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels, since the Song Dynasty. China's classical novels originated from the gossip in the pre-Qin period, which is a record of poor knowledge.
After the long-term development of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, China's classical novels have made remarkable progress, forming two novel types: notes and legends.
Vernacular novels, on the other hand, originated from the speaker's scripts in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the stories were based on folk materials, mainly expressing people's life and ideology. However, both classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels have a long history, showing their own different artistic characteristics.