The first chapter novel in our country is Dream of the Red Chamber.
The first chapter of Chinese novels was Dream of the Red Chamber.
Water margin was the first chapter novel in China.
China's first novel in the form of a chapter was " Dream of the Red Chamber ", which was written in the Qing Dynasty. This novel was a long novel describing the decline of China's feudal society and was also a classic in the history of Chinese novels.
It was the first chapter novel in our country, and it was also the most successful historical novel in our country. "Dream of the Red Chamber" was set in the aristocratic society of the Qing Dynasty. Through describing the love stories of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and others, it showed the various shortcomings of China's feudal society and the complexity of human nature. It was hailed as the pinnacle of Chinese chapter novels.
Water margin was the first novel written in the vernacular and was also one of the four famous novels in China. The novel mainly tells the story of 108 righteous men who gathered together to rebel against the corrupt court because of a conspiracy in the late Northern Song Dynasty. The characters in the novel were full, the plot was ups and downs, and the language was concise and bright, which had a strong appeal and artistic value.
China's first great work of literary realism was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
The first novel in China was Journey to the West.
The first mythological novel in our country should be the Romance of the Gods. It told the story of King Wen's son, King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa, who destroyed the Shang Dynasty at the end of the Shang Dynasty. After that, Jiang Ziya helped to establish the Zhou Dynasty. This novel was rich in imagination and wonderful plot, and was regarded as one of the representative works of Chinese mythological novels.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" was not only the first chapter novel in our country, but also the most successful historical novel in our country. It depicted the life of the noble society in the Qing Dynasty and reflected the dark reality of the feudal society. It had high literary value and historical significance.
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.