2. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is the first historical romance novel in China. Its full name is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
3. A Dream of Red Mansions, also known as The Story of the Stone, is an ancient China chapter novel, which is listed as the first classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, and is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer in the Qing Dynasty.
4. The Water Margin, one of China's four classical novels, is a novel with Sung River Uprising as the main story background at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. The author or editor is generally regarded as Shi Naian, and most of the existing periodicals have one or two people, Shi Naian and Luo Guanzhong.
The novel of Journey to the West takes the historical event of "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures" as the background, and deeply depicts the social reality at that time through the author's artistic processing.
The book mainly describes the story of the Monkey King's encounter with Tang Priest, Pig Bajie, Friar Sand after his birth, and his disturbance to the Heaven Palace. He went west to learn from the scriptures, demonized all the way, and after eighty-one difficulties, he finally arrived in the Western Heaven to meet the Tathagata Buddha, and finally the Five Saints died.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the history of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, mainly describing the war, telling the story of the warlord melee in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and military struggle between Wei, Shu and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
The book can be roughly divided into five parts: The Yellow turban insurrectionary, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, competing among the heroes, the Three Kingdoms' separation, and the Three Kingdoms' return to Jin. On the vast historical stage, a magnificent war scene was staged. Luo Guanzhong, the author, combines the thirty-six strategies of Sun Tzu's Art of War between the lines, including both the plot and the strategy of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
References:
Journey to the West-Baidu Encyclopedia Reference:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms-Baidu Encyclopedia