A comparison between the authors of the Four Great Chinese Classics.

The four famous novels of China were Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, Water Margins, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The authors were all different writers. The author of 'Dream of the Red Chamber' was from the Qing Dynasty. He started writing at the end of the Qing Dynasty and finally completed it in the late 18th century. 'Dream of the Red Chamber' was a novel that described the aristocratic society of the Qing Dynasty. It used the love story of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and others as the main line to describe the life of an illusory and delicate feudal family. The author of Journey to the West was the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Chengen. He started writing at the end of the 19th century and finally finished at the end of the 18th century. Journey to the West mainly narrated the story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Monk Sand who helped Tang Sanzang go to the West to obtain scriptures. It depicted an ancient Chinese mythological world full of fantasy and adventure. The author of " Water Margins " was from the Yuan Dynasty. He started writing at the end of the 12th century and finally completed it in the early 13th century. The Water Margins mainly told the story of 108 Liangshan heroes revolting against the ruling class, depicting an ancient Chinese society full of righteous people. The author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms was the Ming Dynasty novelist Luo Guanzhong. He started writing in the early 13th century and finally finished it in the early 14th century. Romance of the Three Kingdoms mainly narrated the historical story of the Three Kingdoms period. It used the battles and strategies between Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and others as the main line to describe the most turbulent period in Chinese history. It could be seen that the authors of Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, Water Margins, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms were quite far apart in time, and their backgrounds and topics were also different. Each of them represented the peak works of ancient Chinese novels.