What was the first novel in our country about?The Water Margins was the first long chapter novel in China that described the peasant uprising. It was also one of the four famous novels in China. It mainly told the story of 108 heroes who rebelled against the ruling class in Liangshan Lake.
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.