What do celebrity scholars say about the 20 of the Four Great Classics?

Recently, I was reading the four famous novels, and I was suddenly curious, who selected the four famous novels? What criteria are used to select them?

1. The first to put forward the "Four Strange Books" was Wang Shizhen, a famous writer and literary critic in the late Ming Dynasty, and the "Four Great Strange Books" in his mind were "Zhuangzi", "Historical Records", "The Legend of the West Chamber" and "Water Margin".

2. Decades later, Feng Menglong, a ** family, gave a new list of "Four Strange Books" - "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", and "Golden Plum". Feng Menglong himself is a **family, so it is understandable that he prefers **.

3, like Wang Shizhen, Jin Shengxian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was also a literary critic, he was born only twenty or thirty years later than Feng Menglong, but he recognized Wang Shizhen's list of "Four Strange Books", and on this basis, he listed the six talented books in his mind: "Zhuangzi", "Lisao", "Historical Records", "Du Shaoling Collection" (Jin Shengsi's statement is "Du Shi", but "Du Shi" is not a book) "The Legend of the West Chamber" and "Water Margin".

4. In contrast, Li Yu, a writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, had a more objective view. Li Yu disagrees with Wang Shizhen's statement, because "Historical Records" is a historical book, "Zhuangzi" is a prose, "The Legend of the West Chamber" is a drama, and "Water Margin" is **, the four are not the same kind of works at all, on the contrary, he very much agrees with the list of "Four Strange Books" proposed by Feng Menglong, because they are all long and popular, and they are also the most popular social culture at that time. After Li Yu's affirmation, Feng Menglong's "Four Strange Books" quickly spread and was gradually accepted by people.

5. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the People's Literature Publishing House was the first to launch the "Four Famous Novels" series, and the four books they selected were "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West" and "Dream of Red Mansions", which have been published in modern times. Other publishing houses followed suit, and as a result, the "Four Great Classics" gradually became popular among the people.

1, "Dream of Red Mansions" Lin Daiyu's character is portrayed very full. The multiple pairs of polarities in Lin Daiyu's personality coexist with the elements of the hand. There is both loneliness and inferiority and high pride.

It also highlights the feelings of insight into the world but not the sophistication. Cherish love but demand lovers.

2, "Journey to the West" Monkey King is the most glorious image in the book. Havoc in the Heavenly Palace highlights Sun Wukong's spirit of loving freedom and having the courage to resist. "Learn from the West"It shows the spirit of Sun Wukong who will eliminate evil when he sees it, and will eliminate evil.

Tenacious and unyielding in the face of many difficulties, and random responses, the main characteristics of the demon suppressor Sun Wukong.

3. "Water Margin" successfully portrays characters with different personalities, for example: Song Jiang has always shown vacillation while leading the revolution, and he is not only an important factor in the development and prosperity of the peasant uprising in Shizhen, but also an important factor in the deterioration and collapse of the peasant uprising.

4. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is greatly exaggerated, advocating feudal morality, especially loyalty, righteousness, etc. Among them, the image of Liu Bei's love of drinking is very distinct, Liu Bei likes to drink with the generals and soldiers in the barracks, and it is recorded in historical materials that Liu Bei twice held a banquet to drink, as long as he was happy, he would "make a happy drinking banquet until dusk". These all reflect Liu Bei's reckless atmosphere.

Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhou Yu.

Cao Cao: Cao Cao's temperament in history is extremely complex, Chen Shou feels that Cao Cao is "the best in the history of the Three Kingdoms", "the spells of Shen and Shang, the magic of Han and Bai, the official materials to accompany Qiaomin, each according to its instrument, hypocritical Lu Zhi is calculated, and does not remember the old evil".Cao Cao's imperial army for more than 30 years, but he did not put the scroll in his hand, he must give it when he climbed high, and he was good at poetry recitation and cursive marching.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" ignores these advantages of Cao Cao's character and exaggerates the cruelty and treachery of Cao Cao's character. Therefore, Luo Guanzhong's Cao Cao is a typical treacherous and suspicious character.