The first notebook novel in China should be Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
Our country's first novel was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
The earliest notebook novel in China could be traced back to the Tang Dynasty and was called "Supernatural Biography". " Supernatural Biography " was a novel about ghosts and spirits. The author was a Tang Dynasty novelist, Li Fu. It was originally written in a book called " Records of the Mysterious and Strange Ones ", and later evolved and developed into a complete notebook novel. This novel has a high literary value and artistic value, and it is still loved and read by people.
China's first great work of literary realism was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
Midnight was a long novel by Mao Dun, a famous modern Chinese writer. It was regarded as the first successful realistic long novel in China. Mao Dun wrote this novel between 1931 and 1932, which was initially titled Sunset. The novel was set in the Shanghai Financial Exchange in the 1930s, revealing the darkness and infighting of Chinese society at that time. The publication of the novel caused a strong response and was hailed as a milestone work of revolutionary realism. Therefore, it could be said that Midnight was China's first full-length novel.
China's first vernacular novel was " A Madman's Diary." It was published in 1918 at the Beijing Vernacular Fictions Association and became the pioneer work of vernacular novels. This article narrated the experience of a pretentious but actually ridiculous "madman" in the first person. It showed the author's deep insight into human nature and criticism of social reality through irony and ridicule of the political, cultural and social status quo at that time. The publication of A Madman's Diary marked the official birth of vernacular novels as a literary form in China and laid the foundation for the development of modern Chinese literature.
Our country's first novel was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
China's first literary work of realism was Dream of the Red Chamber.
The first essay in our country was Spring and Autumn Dew.
Our country's first military work was Sun Tzu's Art of War, which was written by Sun Wu, a military strategist during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period. The first dictionary in our country was written by Zheng Guanying, a philologist from the Qing Dynasty.
The first dictionary in our country is Zi Hai.