About Chinese Language

水浒传：Heroes of the Marshes;或者Water Margins

三国演义： The Romance of Three Kingdoms

西游记： Pilgrimage to the West或者ourney to the West

红楼梦：The Story of the Stone 或者A Dream in Red Mansions

水浒传

The novel " Heroes of the Marshes " is somewhat like the Iliad and Odyssey... An ancient epic tale... the period was composed and immortalized. As we know this story is based on real facts and has inspired many storytellers. the Song Dynasty reached its apogee and declined.As a victim of corruption and decadence. we can find historical traces of these outlaws who challenged the imperial authority and died under the executioner's blade. A man called Shi Nai-an wrote down the novel Heroes of the Marshes that read by us today. Heroes of the Marshes is an immortal novel because its tale is universal : it tells about 108 heros who cannot bear injustice nor abuse That is the reason why their popularity has lasted for centuries .
《水浒传》
⑴作者：（明）施耐庵
⑵主要内容：全书描写北宋末年以宋江为首的一百零八人在山东梁山泊聚义的故事。
⑶精彩场面：武松景阳冈打虎、林教头风雪山神庙、鲁智深大闹五台山、鲁提辖拳打镇关西、智取生辰纲
⑷妙语佳句：A、恩仇不辩非豪杰，黑白分明是丈夫。B、大厦将倾，非一木可支。C、有力使力，无力斗智。
⑸主要人物：宋江、鲁智深、林冲、武松、李逵等

三国演义

"Three Kingdoms is the tale of the fall of the Later Han Dynasty of China. It describes the lives of those feudal lords and their retainers who tried to either replace the empire or restore it. While the novel actually follows literally hundreds of characters, the focus is mainly on the 3 families who would eventually carve out the 3 kingdoms from the remnants of the Han. The Liu family in the Shu kingdom led by Liu Bei, The Cao family in Wei led by Cao Cao, and the Sun family in Wu eventually led by Sun Quan.

《三国演义》
⑴作者：（明）罗贯中
⑵主要内容：全书描写东汉魏（曹操）、蜀（刘备）、吴（孙权）三国从时局动乱、军阀纷争中崛起，一直到最后被西晋所灭的历史故事。
⑶精彩场面：桃园三结义、草船借箭、赤壁之战、曹操煮酒论英雄、三顾茅庐
⑷妙语佳句：A、衣服破，尚可缝；手足断，安可续。B、三军易得，一将难求。C、强宾不压主。
主要人物：曹操、刘备、孙权、诸葛亮、周瑜、黄盖、吕蒙等。

西游记

Journey to the West, commonly known to the western readers as is a supernatural novel about a world of of fantastic invention, in which gods and demons loom large and vie for supremacy. The novel began with a series of oral and written versions, and eventually attained its most definitive version written by Wu Ch'eng-en (1500?-1582), a scholar-official in the Yantze region, and published in 1592.

《西游记》
⑴作者：（明）吴承恩
⑵主要内容：全书记叙了三藏法师一行四人，历尽千辛万苦，经过九九八十一难，最终扫尽沿途妖魔鬼怪，取回真经的故事。
⑶精彩场面：孙悟空大闹天宫、三打白骨精、真假美猴王、孙悟空三借芭蕉扇、怒打假国丈
⑷妙语佳句：A、皇帝轮流做，明年到我家。B、会家不忙，忙家不会。C、见鞍思骏马，滴水思亲人。
⑸主要人物：唐僧、孙悟空、猪八戒、沙僧、观音菩萨、如来佛祖

红楼梦

" The Story of the Stone "is based on Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai by describing their marriage and tragedy.
The novel is also the description of the rise and fall of sediments which was represented by the four most prominent families, reveals the complex contradictions of the feudal family, performance of the feudal marriage, morality, culture, education and decadent, degenerate and create a series of nobility civilians and the tragic image of a slave woman who has demonstrated an extremely broad typical feudal society living environment.