You're right. The first vernacular novel in our country was Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman. The publication of this novel in 1918 marked the beginning of vernacular literature and laid the foundation for the development of modern Chinese literature.
The first vernacular novel in China was written by Lu Xun.
Lu Xun's first vernacular novel was The Madman's Diary.
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.
It was not the first vernacular Chinese in modern China, but Gao Junyu's Diary of a Madman.
Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman was the first novel written in the vernacular. This novel was first published in the magazine New Youth in 1918. It is a classic in the history of modern Chinese literature. Its appearance marked the rise of vernacular literature and laid the foundation for the development of modern Chinese literature.
The first vernacular novel in China was Dream of the Red Chamber.
China's first vernacular novel was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
The first vernacular novel in the history of Chinese literature was Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman.
Lu Xun wrote many vernacular novels, among which the most famous ones were A Madman's Diary, The True Story of Ah Q, and Medicine. A Madman's Diary was a satirical novel that exposed the darkness of society. It exposed the injustice of society and the distortion of human nature through the crazy behavior of the protagonist. The True Story of Ah Q criticized the feudal system of Chinese society and people's psychological inferiority by describing the character Ah Q. Medicine, on the other hand, was a novel that described the sufferings of the people at the bottom of Chinese society. Through the protagonist, the drug maker, it revealed the problems of drug shortage and poor hygiene in Chinese society at that time. These works were all representative works of Lu Xun's vernacular novels.
Lu Xun's first vernacular essay was 'A Madman's Diary'. This essay was written by Lu Xun in 1918. It was the pioneer work of modern Chinese literature and one of the important milestone in the history of modern Chinese literature. A Madman's Diary was a first-person account of a mentally ill person's resistance and mockery of feudal ethics. The article uses a large number of vernacular and figurative language, concise and lively, full of expressiveness, creating a precedent for modern Chinese vernacular literature. A Madman's Diary caused a great sensation at that time and was regarded as a classic work of modern Chinese literature. It not only had a profound influence on the development of modern Chinese literature, but also laid the foundation for the New Culture Movement in China.