4 great novels in Chinese literature?

1.The Dream of Red Chamber the novel provides a record of the two branches of the Jia Clan,the Ning-guo and Rong-guo Houses,who reside in two large adjacent family compouds in the capital.the novel describe the Jia's wealth and influnence in great naturalisitic detail,and charts the Jia's fall from the height of their prestige,following some thirty main charaters and over four hundred minor ones.Eventually the Jia clan falls into disfavor with the Emperor,and their mansions are raided and confiscated.

4.Journey to the West it is a mythical novels,is a fantasy novel.but it based on a true story of a famous Chinese mook,Xuan Zang.After years of trials and tribulations,he travelled on foot to what is today India,the birthplace of Buddhism,to seek for the Sutra,the Bu ddhist holy book. in the novel Xuan Zang is called Tang Sanzang,he has three apprentices--Sun Wukong,a monkey king.Zhu Bajie,a pig-monster. Sha Wujing--a river monster. they smart, optimistic, fearless and courageous.

3.Water Margin it tells stories of a group of heroes,who stand for different classes of people daring to struggle against the evil. There are 105 men and 3 women in all,who are oppressed by the currpt and unjust official and then rise up.These stories take place at the end of the North Song period, describeing various vivid picture of farmer's uprising full of love and hate,ties and friendship,kind and enmity,etc. The heroes do lots of good deeds to help the poor by blundering the evil.

2.Romance of the Three Kingdom it is a semi-fictional literary masterpiece during the Ming Dynasty.the novel comprises around 70% fact and 20% fiction. the perid in history can be said as the golden age and althougt it happened more than 1700 years ago ,characters such as Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei,and Cao Cao have become household names among the chinese. it chronicles the lives of those fedual lords and their retainers who tried to either replace the empire or restore it.