Four Great Classical Novels

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Features: Reading Dream of the Red Chamber, one feels that the Jia family was a place where freedom of speech was highly restricted. Jiao Da, with the status of a servant, took advantage of his drunkenness to insult the master, then proceed to insult all other servants, ultimately earning the master's deep aversion and the servants' bitter resentment, and being filled with horse manure as a result. -- Lu Xun
At the end of the Han Dynasty, it was still a relatively ancient time in human nature. I cannot help but cite a fictional allusion to express my anger: Xu Chu, fighting on the battlefield, was shot several times. Yet Jin Shengtan still laughed at him, saying, "Who told you to fight bare-chested?" -- Lu Xun
Water Margin is very clear in its depiction: because they did not oppose the emperor, as soon as the army arrived, they accepted the imperial pardon and fought for the country against other bandits—not the "carrying out justice for heaven" bandits. In the end, they became slaves. -- Lu Xun
Even when writing about monsters, Sun Wukong's ability to leap ten thousand miles in a single somersault, Zhu Bajie's marriage in the High Village, and the Monkey King's antics in Dream of the Red Chamber may still find someone in the human world who resembles them spiritually. Dream of the Red Chamber portrays the struggle between two factions, one good and one bad. Grandmother Jia, Wang Xifeng, and Jia Zheng belong to the bad faction; while Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, and the maids belong to the good faction. -- Mao Zedong
Liu Bei knows how to use people and unite them, ultimately achieving great things. Zhang Fei has very strong principles. -- Mao Zedong
When reading Journey to the West, one must see their unwavering faith. -- Mao Zedong
Water Margin should be read as a political book. -- Mao Zedong