"Water Margin" takes the rebel army led by Song Jiang as the main theme, and through a series of vivid stories of Liangshan heroes' resistance to oppression and heroic struggle, it exposes the decay and cruelty of the ruling class at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and exposes the sharp social contradictions and the cruel reality of "officials forcing the people to rebel" at that time.

2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The story of Romance of the Three Kingdoms begins with the Yellow Scarf Uprising and ends with Sima's destruction of Wu Jinkai. It mainly describes the war, reflects the political and military struggle between Wei, Wu, shows the historical situation of nearly a hundred years at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, and successfully created a group of heroes.

3. Journey to the West

The first seven chapters of Journey to the West described the story of the Monkey King's birth, such as making a scene in heaven. After that, he wrote the story of the Monkey King following the Tang Priest to learn Buddhist scriptures and exorcising demons and overcoming difficulties along the way. The images of Tang Priest, the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand in the book are vivid, large in scale and complete in structure. The Journey to the West is full of Buddhist colors, with far-reaching implications and different opinions.

4. A Dream of Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions focuses on the emotional entanglements among Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, and tells the people and events that happened in the feudal family of a fictional dynasty. Through the description of some daily events, taking the twelve women in Jinling as the main body, it reflects the love and hate of all women in Jiafu Grand View Garden.

At the same time, from the rich and gorgeous Jiafu to the declining line, it reflects the decline of a large family and the ugliness within this seemingly gorgeous family.

Extended data 1, Water Margin is the first vernacular novel in China history. As a new style, it has since established its due position in the field of literature, and began to gradually change the face of the literary world with poetry as its authenticity.

The artistic achievement of Water Margin is most prominently reflected in the creation of heroes. The great historical theme of the book is mainly manifested in the praise of the uprising heroes and the description of their struggle.

Therefore, the success of heroic image-building is an important factor for the works to have brilliant artistic life. In Water Margin, there are at least twenty typical images with distinct personalities, which are lifelike and lifelike.

In the aspect of characterization, the greatest feature is that the author is good at putting the characters in the real historical environment and portraying them by closely following their identities, experiences and encounters.

2. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a combination of folklore, drama scripts, Chen Shou's History of the Three Kingdoms, Ye Fan's History of the Later Han Dynasty, the History of the Three Kingdoms in the Yuan Dynasty and Pei Songzhi's annotations, as well as the author's personal understanding of social life. At present, the earliest edition is Ming Jiajing edition, which is divided into 24 volumes and 240 articles. In the early Qing Dynasty, Mao Zonggang and his son made some modifications and became the most common transcript of 120.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is China's first novel.

3. The appearance of The Journey to the West opened up a new category of ghost novels. The ingenious combination of well-meaning satire, bitter satire and serious criticism in the book directly affects the development of satirical novels. So The Journey to the West is the pinnacle of ancient romance novels. In the history of world literature, it is also a masterpiece of romanticism and a pioneer of magical realism.

Since its publication, The Journey to the West has been widely circulated among the people, and various versions have emerged one after another. There are six editions in Ming Dynasty, seven editions and manuscripts in Qing Dynasty, and thirteen lost editions have been recorded in ancient books. After the Opium War, a large number of China classical literary works were translated into western languages, and The Journey to the West was gradually introduced to Europe and America.

It has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, sign language, Esperanto (Esperanto), Sri Lankan (Swahili), Russian, Czech, Romanian, Polish, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Chinese and foreign scholars have published many research papers and monographs, which have given high evaluation to this novel.

4. A Dream of Red Mansions comprehensively and profoundly reflects the characteristics of the ups and downs of feudal society. It does not describe the love story of "wedding candles and being the first"; It is about the love and marriage tragedy between young feudal nobles Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.

The great social significance of the novel lies in that it does not describe this love tragedy in isolation, but focuses on this love and marriage tragedy, and writes about the rise and fall of four representative families at that time, including Jia Fu, which exposes all kinds of darkness and evil in the late feudal society and their insurmountable internal contradictions.

It strongly criticizes the decadent feudal ruling class and the feudal system that is about to collapse, making readers feel that it is bound to perish. At the same time, the novel also expresses a new hazy ideal by praising the noble rebels.