What were the Antiquity Doubt Sect and the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly Sect?
The School of Suspicion and the School of Mandarin Duck and Butterfly were both novel schools in the Ming Dynasty. The similarity between them was that they both attached importance to the plot and the creation of characters, but there were also some differences. The School of Ancient Suspicion was a literary school in the early years of the Ming Dynasty that advocated in-depth research on ancient history, legends, myths, and other materials to explore ancient culture, philosophy, morality, and so on to create novels. The representative works of this school were Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, and so on. The Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School was a literary school in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Its main feature was to describe love. The plot was twisted and bizarre, often involving social reality, ethics and morality. The representative works of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School were Water Margins and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The novels created by the School of Ancient Suspicion focused on the study of history, culture, philosophy and other aspects, which had more cultural significance and historical value, while the novels created by the School of Mandarin Duck and Butterfly focused on the description of love stories, which were more entertaining and ornamental.