Classical Chinese Novel Popular Library -- The Three Heroes and Five Righteous Ones (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Shi Yukun
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Publishing Date: 2005-03-01
Features: During the Daoguang era of the Qing Dynasty, a highly skilled storytelling artist named Shi Yukun came to Beijing. His performance of "Bao Gong Case" was rich in content, captivating, and became immensely popular in the city. Someone recorded Shi Yukun's storytelling, transcribed and adapted it, compiling it into a 120-chapter work titled "Zhonglie Xiaoyi Zhuan," also known as "San Xia Wu Yi." The late Qing scholar Yu Yue praised its vivid and delicate writing, exclaiming, "Only such writing can be considered true Pinghua fiction; only such Pinghua fiction can be regarded as a unique form of literary artistry in the world." Lu Xun admired the wise and brave heroes and righteous figures in the novel, commenting, "Among the grassland heroes, they are particularly spirited, and occasionally interspersed with worldly scenes and humor, they often add an extra charm to the rough and tumble." "San Xia Wu Yi" was published successively in Beijing and Shanghai, as a representative work of Qing Dynasty public case and martial-arts fiction, sparking a wave of popularity for this genre of novels.