Talk about four classic novels.

"Water Margin", the author's ambition is great. One hundred and eight people accept all orders, which is too big a goal.

Liang Qichao said that the water margin is difficult to write, because everyone is a robber, and it is especially difficult to write as a robber in the same place, let alone write 108. In fact, no matter how talented the author is, he can't completely control it. Most heroes are vague. What does Lv Fang Guo Sheng look like? No face. Why did Hao He write? They all add up. There are many brave people whose original faces are very vivid. They disappeared as soon as they went to Liangshan, as if they had been eaten, because the author's brushwork really couldn't take care of them.

In order to complete the task of gathering people's heads, the author has to accept "two times", Chen Da and Yang Chun are two times, Jie Zhen and Gerber are also two times, and Han Tao and Peng Qi are also two times. You can write one but two, but you are lazy.

Later, Jin Yong tried to avoid "double multiplication". Even if he wrote such a pair of characters, he tried to write different personalities. Mysterious parents, why does Jin Yong write that cranes, good wine and deer are lewd? This is the difference. Try to avoid multiplying by two. But in fact, the difference between parents is not obvious.

If the water margin author accepts his heart and shrinks his writing plan once or twice, for example, returning to the thirty-six heroes in his early years, his literary value will be higher. Thirty-six people, he is sure to get it, even if not all of them are as talented as Lu Da Song Wu, but Shi Xiu with guaranteed level is definitely no problem.

Of course, as a masterpiece, we should not look at how low its low point is, but how high its high point is, not in the short board but in the long board. Lu Dalin rushed to Song Wu, Song Jiang, Li Kui jy and Gao Qiu. These dozens of characters stopped, and the Water Margin was great enough. And people are classics after all, even short boards are not short. The "shortest" part, such as the last twenty chapters of Baihui Ben, is not wonderful, but is it of literary value? Yes, it has tragic value after all.

Three kingdoms. A few days ago, a young colleague said that the three countries had the lowest literary level among the "Big Four". I really don't know where this impression came from. If you have to say the lowest, it may be the lowest in Journey to the West, but it is not much lower, between millimeters.

The Three Kingdoms has a bigger stall and a longer span than the Water Margin. If you change to ordinary calligraphy and painting, you will definitely not be able to move in front of such a big blueprint and will be drowned. The author of The Romance of The Three Kingdoms can walk around and draw a number of top literary figures, such as Liu, Zhuge, Cao Cao, Zhou Yu and Lu Su. Even Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Wei Yan and Jiang Gan are all very vivid and wonderful, just like a great painter painting a million Ma Benteng, looking at the classics from a distance, choosing dozens to enlarge them and finding them to be classics.

Since Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been many such historical novels. After Three Kingdoms, Xia Shu, Guo, Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Song Dynasty. However, only the three countries are the best, and the level of the realm is higher. In contrast, it has become the work of village scholars, "everyone who knows wants to vomit."

However, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has been read by Wang Yang for hundreds of times, and its level is unusual. It's best to be in Battle of Red Cliffs, which is absolutely wonderful. The last advantage is that in the death of Zhuge in Wuzhangyuan, the level of great works has been maintained. After Zhuge's death, the author probably lost his passion for creation, perfunctory and had nothing to recommend.

The Journey to the West, the advantage is that it makes havoc in heaven. It can be said that the opening is the peak.

The protagonist, like Monkey Sun, has a defiant face and a bold and free tone. The revolutionary point is the spirit of resistance, which is unparalleled in the history of China literature for thousands of years. The former can't catch up with the latter. Compared with monkeys, Ling Huchong, Yang Guo and Xia Xueyi, the most unruly in Jin Yong's novels, can only be regarded as charming.

It's just that the westward journey is going downhill. After the Buddhist scripture team left, the literary value was continuously diluted and devalued, and many stories, running accounts and tattered poems were pieced together, and the author's occasional comments and opinions were not very clever.

Moreover, the author thinks that profound and subtle themes and metaphors, such as "in someone's mind" and the metaphor of the five elements, are actually just secular preaching, not profound, and literature is far from being a riot. Today's readers should not be fooled by these things. This is not the value of Journey to the West. Always smoking these things is to give up jade and get tiles.

In order to prevent blackmail, it has to be said that its literary value has been devalued all the way. That is the highest standard, measured by the highest peak of China's ancient novels. It is tantamount to saying that "this part of the Himalayas is very short", but people are still Himalayas.

The Journey to the West is also good in the middle and late period, and the first part of White is also good. In short, whoever wants to be reasonable in The Journey to the West is not good; Anything that depicts characters and speaks about human nature is good.

At the end of the day, when the Buddha was worshiped in Lingshan, Ananda Ye Jia suddenly asked for a bribe, which was a wonder of leisure. The author is telling you with this passage: don't think that I will give you a routine in the end, I don't have time to talk nonsense here.

Let's talk briefly about the Red Chamber.

The Red Chamber is different from the three above. Among the "Big Four", the Red Chamber is the most individual, and it is out of order. Those three are a group, and the red chamber is a group. For example, these three are hot pot, barbecue and mutton kebabs, and the red chamber is Sven tofu. It's a little strange to be called the four famous dishes together.

The other three books, Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West, are all man-made. What do you mean? Its stories and characters are stacked by many people from generation to generation, such as weaving a monk, a martial artist, a forest instructor, and finally coming out with the highest cultural quality. All the data are collected and the documents are upgraded into one. Take Li's statement as an example. The stories of China monkeys Song Jiang, Liu Bei and Sun for thousands of years are like mountains. Many peaks are stacked one after another, among which The Water Margin, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Journey to the West are the highest peaks.

But The Red Chamber is different. It's not an artificial environment, it's an artificial environment. Only Cao Xueqin made it for you, one brain and one pen. It is not a mountain range, but a bright moon, hanging alone in the sky and shining through the ages. You don't know how it came from or how it went to heaven. Anyway, all of a sudden. I can only lie on my head, and there is nothing else to say.

In other words, Four Great Classical Novels's authors are all cows, but Cao Xueqin's cow method is different.

Finally, by the way, talk about "Shen Feng". His achievements in literature are far less than those of the "Big Four", and there is a big gap compared with The Scholars and Liaozhai of the second camp. For example, the "Big Four" are Ling Huchong and Ren Woxing, "Scholars" is Xiang Wentian, and "Shen Feng" is probably Mufeng in Yu Canghai. But his popularity is very high, and it is also very meaningful in the history of mythology.

Nezha and Jiang Ziya are both very popular recently. Watching animated films, everyone basically thinks that The Legend of Deification is not as good as Nezha, right? In fact, this has its roots, because Shen Feng's original story of Nezha is the best, but Jiang Ziya can't. The most wonderful passage in "Romance of the Gods" is the place where the sea is noisy, and the person who failed to portray it well is Jiang Ziya.

Later, when I made cartoons and filmed Nezha, I was inspired by the master. I feel sluggish when shooting Jiang Ziya, which probably has something to do with this, because you are passive water.

Is there anything good about Jiang Ziya in Shen Feng? Yes Jiang Ziya got married, which is a good part. Getting married, selling noodles, opening a restaurant and telling fortune are all good articles, full of fireworks. Explain that the author is familiar with these things and can write well. When the author wants to mold a saint, a great prophet and a commander-in-chief, he can't write well. He doesn't know what a great saint and commander-in-chief should look like.

Jiang Ziya's most human scene was when his wife forced him to write a divorce certificate. After reading it, he refused to hand it in, saying, madam, I have the book, and the husband and wife are still reunited. If I do, I'll break up! This is the best. Reading depends on these places.

A reader said that Jiang Ziya got married, which is very good. I quote here as the end:

He loves her and she doesn't love him. He must love him. She can stop loving him, but she loves him again. Unfortunately, he couldn't love her, and she died in anger.

What a wonderful theme of Sansheng III.