The concept of time travel could be traced back to the ancient Chinese Rites of Zhou, which had the description of "expecting me to be in Qi". It meant that people in the future would achieve their goals by traveling through time. At the end of the 19th century, Faulkner wrote his first time-travel novel, The Sound and the Fury. This novel was first published in 1925 and it tells the story of a young man who became a major breakthrough in the literary world at that time.
In the West, the first person to propose the concept of curriculum was the ancient Roman philosopher, Julian Barney. In his book, Learning and Knowledge, he proposed the concept of curriculum. He believed that curriculum was an educational method to help students acquire knowledge and skills through systematic learning and teaching. Baines believed that the curriculum should be a structured, planned, and organized way of learning to help students better understand knowledge and master skills.
The first transmigration novel was " Transmigration and Anti-transmigration."
The earliest time-travel novels could be traced back to the early 1990s in the Chinese online literature world. Among them, the more famous ones were Back to the Past and Become a Cat, Strange Man, Time Travel and Anti-Time Travel, and so on. These works spread on the Internet at that time, causing widespread interest and discussion among readers. As time passed, time-travel novels gradually became a mainstream form of online literature and gradually became popular all over the country. Among them were the more famous transmigration novels, I Eat Tomatoes, Xiao Ding, Jiangnan, and so on. Their works had not only achieved great success in China, but they had also received widespread attention and recognition internationally.
The first transmigration novel was " Return to the Ming Dynasty to Be a Prince " by Chen Qingbiao, the author of The Story of the Ming Dynasty.
The concept of "tribulation" in immortal cultivation novels could be traced back to ancient Chinese Taoist culture. In Taoism, people achieved the goal of improving their own realm by practicing internal, external, and divine arts. This improvement of realm was called "crossing tribulation". In later immortal cultivation novels, tribulation transcendence became a common cultivation method. Many novels would have the protagonist experience various hardships and finally successfully transcend the tribulation to ascend to the immortal world. However, the specific details and settings might vary from novel to novel. Many novels would confuse the concept of tribulation and reincarnation. Therefore, different authors had different explanations and understandings of the concept of tribulation in immortal cultivation novels.
The vernacular was proposed at the end of the Qing Dynasty with the rise of the New Culture Movement. At that time, many scholars believed that the traditional classical Chinese was outdated and could not adapt to the needs of modern communication, so they advocated the use of vernacular Chinese. The characteristics of vernacular writing were concise, clear, easy to understand, and better able to express thoughts and emotions.
Morality was first proposed by human beings. Different cultures and historical periods have different moral concepts and philosophical thoughts. However, in general, morality is a kind of norm and criterion formulated by human beings according to their own values and codes of conduct to guide people's behavior and decision-making. Different cultures and religions had different understandings and definition of morality. For example, the concepts of benevolence, righteousness, and propriety in Confucianism were a basic definition of morality.
In China, the concept of "children's literature" was first created by the author. In a report at that time, he used the term "children's literature" for the first time to refer to literary works suitable for children. Since then, this concept had gradually gained widespread recognition and use.
The first transmigration novel was " Transmigration and Anti-transmigration."
If a person traveled to ancient times and became a witness and participant of a historical event, the novel could be called a first-person travel novel. For example, if a person transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty and became a fan of Li Bai, then a novel with Li Bai as the main character could be called a first-person transmigration novel.