四小名著

The Four Little Masterpieces (Simplified) refers to the collective name of the four famous Chinese classical novels, including: "Feng Shen Yan Yi", "The Scholars", "Three Heroes and Five Yis" and "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi".

(Simplified) China's Four Little Classics refers to the collective name of four famous novels. China’s four masterpieces are "The Romance of Fengshen", "The Scholars", "Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses" and "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio".

"Fengshen Yanyi", commonly known as "Fengshen Bang", also known as "The Complete Biography of Shang and Zhou Kingdoms", "The King of Wu's Attack on the Outside History", "The Legend of Fengshen", a Chinese novel of gods and demons, written by Chen Zhonglin in the Ming Dynasty, and it was written in Longqing and Wanli. Years. There are a hundred chapters in the book. "Fengshen Yanyi" is based on the history of Jiang Ziya assisting the Zhou clan (king Zhou Wen and Wang Wu) in the crusade against Shang Zhou. Contains a lot of folklore and mythology. There are vivid and bright images such as Jiang Ziya and Nezha, and it ends with Jiang Ziya sealing the gods and Zhou Wu Wang sealing the princes.

"The Scholars" is a novel (also called chapter novel) created by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty, and is a model of ancient satirical literature in China. There are 56 chapters in the book, describing nearly two hundred characters. The novel pretends to be a reference to the Ming Dynasty, and actually reflects the fame and life of scholars under the imperial examination system during the Kang-Qian period. Wu Jingzi's successful portrayal of the feudal literary population living in the last days of feudalism and the imperial examination system, as well as his vivid description of the cannibalistic imperial examination, ethics and corruption, made him one of the outstanding writers of critical realism in the history of Chinese literature.

"Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses", author Shi Yukun, is a classic novel of classical chivalrous cases. The "three heroes" refer to the northern hero Ouyangchun, Nanxia Zhanzhao, and the two heroes Ding Zhaolan and Ding Zhaohui. Qing, Jiang Ping, Jiang Ping, the five brothers of Jinmaoshu Baiyutang. The novel combines the chivalrous and righteous behaviors of anti-violence and peace with the protection of the ministers of the government and the merits of the country. Nan Xia and the Five Rats are both awarded the royal guards, showing the idea of ​​promoting loyalty and maintaining social order.

"Strange Stories from a Liao Zhai", abbreviated as "Liao Zhai", commonly known as "The Legend of the Ghost Fox", is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese created by the famous Chinese novelist Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty. There are 491 short stories in the book. The subject matter is very wide, the content is extremely rich, and the artistic achievement is very high. The work has successfully created many artistic models, with vivid and vivid characters, bizarre plots, rigorous and ingenious structure, concise writing, and exquisite description. It can be called the pinnacle of Chinese classical short stories. Most of the novels in "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio" talk about foxes and ghosts through fantasy, but the content is deeply rooted in the soil of real life, and tortuously reflects the social contradictions of the era in which Pu Songling lived and the people's ideological aspirations. , Melted into the writer's unique feelings and understanding of life.