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CONCERT FOR THE FOUR FAMOUS WORKS OF CHINA

Acclaimed musicians from China and the US will be performing at this event to celebrate the 2020 New Year concert.

The concert will be held at Bonita Center of the Arts on Jan 17th, 2020.

Four long fictional novels are usually thought to be the best novels in Chinese literature. What all four have in common is that they were written in a spoken language of their times unlike most ancient literature that was written in the literary Classical Language. Also, all four have disputed authorship. The four works were seminal for the development of Chinese societies in past eras.

They were widely read by the literati and administrative rulers and contained philosophical ideas, history, and ideas about human society, family life, and politics that defined part of the world view of the literate and politically influential.

1. A Dream of Red Mansions, a Chinese ancient chapter novel, also known as Stone Records, has been listed as the first of the four classical works in China. It is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer of the Qing Dynasty.

2.Journey to the West is the first Romantic chapter novel about gods and demons in ancient China.There are 100 copies of Journey to the West in the existing Ming Publications without the author's signature.

Wu Yuxuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty,first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Chengen of the Ming Dynasty.

3.The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four famous classical works in China. It is the first full-length historical Romance novel in China. Its full name is The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms).

The author is Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.

4.Shuihuzhuan, one of the four famous works in China, is a long chapter novel with the Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty as the main background and type of heroic legend.

Authors or editors are generally regarded as Shi Nai'an. Most of the existing publications are signed by one or both of them, Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong.

These four books are called the Four Great Classic Novels of China.