A Study Of Cai Yuan - Ju 's Novels

The main content of this article is Cai Yuanfang’s fictional commentary. Including The Bibliography of Many Nations in Eastern Zhou Dynasty and Sequel to The Water Margins.The article is divided into three parts:historical novel theory of Cai Yuanfang; the refiner and criticism to the Sequel to The Water Margins; the theory of the following articles.Historical novel theory of Cai Yuanfang:Besides ShiLU novel theory, we do the extensible discuss of Historical novel theory of Cai Yuanfang. Firstly compared the historical novel theory between Cai Yuanfang and Feng Menglong. Cai Yuanfang criticism to The Bibliography of Many Nations in Eastern Zhou Dynasty, which is written by Feng Menglong, so Historical novel theory of Cai Yuanfang is following by Feng Menglong. Both of them insist history novel must conform the history. Except the history novel, both of them accept fabrication of novel. Secondly, discuss the influence of Historical novel theory of Cai Yuanfang to the Bibliography of Many Nations in Eastern Zhou Dynasty.The content of following two parts is the Sequel to The Water Margins. In QianLong dynasty Cai Yuanfang critic the Sequel to The Water Margins. He split eight parts into ten parts. Besides, he added some plot, modify some error. So after the criticism, the novel has different artistic value. In this article i want to discuss the reason of modify to the title and content. The author of the Sequel to The Water Margins who is also critic the novel, Cai Yuanfang’s theory of the following articles is following by Chenchen. He develop the theory of the following articles by figure and construction.All in all, Cai Yuanfang is a great critic, his work on the two novels is deserve our recognition, though there is also some disadvantages like too many enlightenment in the commentary. Some issues left, we need to continue the research of Cai Yuanfang’s fictional commentary.