The four masterpieces are well-known in China, it can be said that each one is very famous, coupled with the continuous adaptation of film and television dramas over the years, the influence of the four masterpieces in China is obviously more than other eras.
There is a very popular saying that most things, we will only remember the first place, the selection of books is actually similar, in the Ming Dynasty there were four strange books of calligraphy, because at that time "Dream of the Red Chamber" had not yet come out.
During the Qing Dynasty, there were six famous works, in fact, the four famous works were put forward after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and once this statement was accepted, the original and four famous works of "Jin Ping Mei" and "Ru Lin Wai Shi" immediately became a niche reading, and the popularity could not be compared with the four famous works.
The selection of the four famous works is not the result of a moment and a place, but in the long-term production and life, people have finally selected these four books with a very wide reading audience through continuous screening.
The reason why these four books are popular has a lot to do with the causes, three of the four famous works are all novels, what is called the script, that is, the base book used by ancient storytellers.
The story of the Three Kingdoms, the story of the Water Margin, the story of the Journey to the West, the earliest are the tea house liquor stores, the stories that the storytellers often tell, it is precisely because of these things, the people love to listen, and the storytellers rely on this to eat, so the story is definitely constantly enriched, becoming more and more exciting.
In the later period, on the basis of storytelling books, after the processing of the literati, it has become the novel we see today, it can be said that these three books are stories first, and then there are novels, the mass base is originally very good, and it is a story that has been tempered and tempered, and after countless times of repetition, it is loved by the public.
The Dream of the Red Chamber is more special, before the small words are said, there is no story at all, he is completely by virtue of the literati to create the characters and stories, why not say cao Xueqin, because the Dream of the Red Chamber is strictly speaking, it is difficult to prove that Cao Xueqin wrote, of course, it is difficult to have other proofs to prove that others are more suitable than Cao Xueqin.
Interestingly, the authors of the four masterpieces are actually all suspicious, mainly because the ancient literati did not take the novel seriously, and there was no sense of copyright, copying the book and compiling the book is a common thing, we now see the authors of the four masterpieces, can only be a relatively reliable statement, but there is no 100% conclusive evidence.
To talk about which novel has the greatest influence, there is no doubt that it should be "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", let's analyze these novels, we can understand why the romance of the Three Kingdoms is the most influential.
It is said that less do not read the water margin, are afraid that children follow the water margin to learn bad, in fact, this does not have to worry at all, children are originally more naughty, fights are common, but in general, the strength is also small, the province is not harmful.
And the Water Margin is about the life of a bunch of robbers, no one really wants to live the life of a robber, and there is no love in it, there are few beautiful women, and they are all snakes and scorpions, so this book is considered to be the four major ones, relatively speaking, the least familiarity and promotion.
The story of the journey to the west, but many people like it, but the gods and demons, after all, are too far away from us, we can only like Sun Wukong, or hope to become Sun Wukong, but that is what is done in dreams, and there is almost no impact on reality.
The Dream of the Red Chamber is the four famous works, the highest achievements in literature and art, but also formed a set of special learning, called Red Studies, but the audience of the Dream of the Red Chamber is a little small, belongs to the people who like to love the dead and live, do not like the people, casually turn over, and no matter how much you like, the life inside, are aristocratic, the average person can only do it to see.
Speaking of the novel that has the greatest influence on China and is the most far-reaching novel, it is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms model, the short Three Kingdoms era, because of this novel, it has become the most familiar dynasty in Chinese, and the familiarity is far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties.
When many boys are young, they will imitate the plot of the novel, Taoyuan Sanjieyi, to carry out worship, which is the charm of this book, which can influence many people from the bottom of their hearts.
The characters in the book have deeply become a kind of cultural psychology and symbols, such as Cao Cao, that is treacherous, Zhuge Liang, who is resourceful, Guan Yu, who is righteous and thin, and even the Guandi Temple that blossomed everywhere in the Qing Dynasty, this novel has played a very big role.
And the story of the Three Kingdoms, looking at the story of the national struggle, is actually written entirely with the techniques and feelings of small citizens, without the slightest sense of separation, such as the hottest ghost animal video, Zhuge Liang scolded Wang Lang, Wang Lang was angry, it was completely the scolding of the city, it was the wonderful scolding of the shrews, the real Shu Han Xiang would not speak like that at all, but it was this way of thinking of small people that made the Three Kingdoms like and accepted by more people.
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