Cai Dongfan s creation process, Cai Dongfan s work evaluation

Cai Dongfan's "Popular Romance of the Chinese Dynasties" is not only a historical masterpiece, but also a literary masterpiece, reading "The Popular Romance of the Chinese Dynasties", you can not only understand Chinese history, but also appreciate the legendary story, which is really the best of both worlds.

As we all know, Luo Guanzhong wrote "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with a writing method of "seven points of fact and three points of fiction". He respects history, but is not confined to history, can blend and melt a lot of wild history, skillfully tailoring, so the characters and storylines are written vividly, with a high degree of artistry. However, Cai Dongfan, on the contrary, tried his best to oppose the fiction of history.

He advocated following the official history, and strictly achieved the so-called "nothing without a background", "so as not to confuse the viewers", he claimed that the historical interpretation he compiled, "take the official history as the scripture, and strive for conclusiveness; Take anecdotes as the weft, not falsehoods". The attitude of refusing to joke has had a profound impact on later generations of historical writers. However, it is precisely this point that makes his romance greatly inferior in art, so that it cannot become a literary romance but only a historical romance.

This may be the reason why this ** was snubbed.

The historical value is higher than the literary value, and the greatest feature of Cai Dongfan's works lies in his strict pursuit of historical truth. He wrote historical romances, "all words have their own books", and strived to have historical records as the basis for their main plots. Naturally, as a "romance", he also has fiction, especially character dialogue.

However, he was very cautious, striving to conform to a specific historical environment and the character of a specific historical figure, and did not dare to make it up arbitrarily. Therefore, his book can be read as history.

Drunk singing. Cai Dongfan.

-Poetry Wine Fairy The young man has fame in his arms, and the sea sighs for nothing. The breeze blows the dragon and blows the Confucian nature. Lin Quan's pen is thundering, and the barnyard history has become a giant tripod. Thousands of autumns take a look at the scenery of Dongyue, and a package of rivers and mountains.

Cai Dongfan has a wide range of interests and is very knowledgeable. In addition to historical romances, he is also the author of "Leaving the Youth Collection", "Leaving the Youth New Collection", "Guest-Chinese Pastime", "Yinglian Daquan" and poetry collections "Fengyue Yin", "Writing Sorrowful Grass" and so on. During his stay in the countryside, he studied medicine with his father-in-law, wrote 4 volumes of "Songs for Internal Medicine", and served as a Chinese teacher at Linpu Primary School, and later set up a private school to teach.

Advocate "applying what you have learned" in Chinese teaching and advocate innovation. Cai Dongfan lived a difficult life in his later years, practicing medicine and selling literature for a living.

Cai Dongfan's motive for writing the book was inseparable from the historical status quo of the nation's peril. With his own long-term historical pen, in order to tell Chinese history in the form of popular romance, in order to help the Chinese people find the way to salvation and survival from the enlightenment of history, it is his meaning of "scholars to serve the country". It is precisely because of this that he chose to write "The Popular Romance of Qing History" first, and since then it has been unacceptable.

Cai Dongfan's set of romances emphasizes history and neglects literature, although it is slightly inferior to literary brilliance, but it provides a vast and popular general history of China, and has made an indelible contribution to the popularization of Chinese historical knowledge.

Cai Dongfan died on March 5, 1945 (on the eve of Japan's surrender) at the age of sixty-nine.