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(一) 明初,《三国演义》、《水浒传》等长篇小说的崛起,揭开了中国小说史新的一页。明中叶直至清乾隆年间,《西游记》、《金瓶梅》和《儒林外史》、《红楼梦》等相继出现,为各自的时代开拓了新的艺术境界,标志着中国古代小说趋于最后成熟并走向繁荣。《红楼梦》则把中国古代小说艺术推向高峰。与此同时,一种带有规律性的文学现象也颇引人瞩目:一部具有开拓性的长篇小说问世,在社会上产生广泛影响并为读者普遍接受之后,往往有一系列仿续之作接踵而起,蔚为大观,形成一个与原作极不相称的小说群。我们不妨称之为古代长篇小说
(A) the rise of the Ming Dynasty, “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, “Water Margin” and other novels opened a new chapter in the history of Chinese fiction. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty until the Qing Emperor Qianlong years, “Journey to the West”, “Jin Ping Mei” and “Scholars” and “Dream of Red Mansions” appeared one after another, opened up new artistic realms for their own times and marked the final maturation of ancient Chinese novels To prosperity. “Dream of Red Mansions” put the art of ancient Chinese novels to the peak. At the same time, a phenomenon with regularity is quite striking: after a pioneering novel came into being, having a wide range of influences in the society and being universally accepted by readers, there is often a series of imitations ensuing From the beginning, it is a spectacle, forming a group of novels commensurate with the original works. We may call it ancient novels