'Dream of the Red Chamber' was the first modern novel written in vernacular Chinese.
Lu Xun's first vernacular novel was The Madman's Diary.
'Dream of the Red Chamber' was a classic in the history of modern Chinese literature. The author was from the Qing Dynasty. This novel described the life of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and others in the Jia family. The plot was complicated and the characters were full. It was regarded as the pinnacle of Chinese classical novels.
It was not the first novel in history to be written in the vernacular language, but 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
It was not the first vernacular Chinese in modern China, but Gao Junyu's Diary of a Madman.
His first vernacular novel was A Madman's Diary.
His first vernacular novel was 'Dream of the Red Chamber'.
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 the history of modern literature was " The Madman's Diary."
The modern vernacular could be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, with the development of the commodity economy and the progress of society, vernacular Chinese began to be widely used as a more easy-to-understand language form. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, some writers such as Feng Menglong and Luo Guanzhong wrote novels such as Water Margins and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which used a large number of vernacular languages to make these works easier to understand and spread. The development of modern Chinese could also be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, which laid the foundation for the popularity of modern Chinese.
Lu Xun's first vernacular short story was The Madman's Diary. This novel was first published in 1918, and it is a classic in the history of modern Chinese literature. It is considered one of the foundational works of modern Chinese literature. Through the perspective of a self-conceited but actually full of despair and pain, the novel reveals the various ills of Chinese society and the distortion of human nature at that time, which had a profound impact on Chinese culture and the intellectual world at that time.