How did the chapter novel develop?
Zhang Hui novels originated from the long novels of China's feudal society. In the feudal society, novels were an important form of literature and one of the main forms of entertainment for the government and the people. Because the length of the novel was long, it was difficult to finish it in one go, so it needed to be revised and polished repeatedly to be more perfect. In order to save space, each chapter contained a certain number of chapters to save space and improve reading efficiency. The chapter novel was a novel form that gradually formed on the basis of these chapters. The first chapter novels appeared in the Song Dynasty, and there were already some examples of chapter novels. In the Ming Dynasty, the Zhanghui novel began to spread widely and became one of the main forms of novel creation. The characteristic of a chapter novel was that each chapter contained a certain number of chapters. Each chapter was usually in the form of a paragraph or sentence, and there was a certain connection between each paragraph. With the spread of the chapter novel, this novel form gradually developed into many different variants, such as "Dream of the Red Chamber","Journey to the West" and other classic works.