The first full-length novel in our country is written byThe first full-length novel in our country was " Dream of the Red Chamber ", which was written in the Qing Dynasty. This novel is a long novel with rich cultural implications and is also a classic in the history of Chinese literature.
The first vernacular novel in our countryChina'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.