Zhang Xuecheng thought it was "seven facts and three fictions" in Qing Dynasty. Especially the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms has a clear understanding of the difference between novels and history.
While reshaping history according to certain political and moral concepts, we also create art according to certain aesthetic ideals. However, the successful combination of reality and fiction has become a successful example of the combination of reality and fiction in the creation of historical novels.
Grammatically, "historical novel" is a radical phrase, its subject is "novel", and "history" is a restriction and modification of the subject.
Different from historical works, it can be imagined and fictional in details, allowing appropriate artistic exaggeration and necessary concentration. In order to enrich the characters' images, artistic processing can be carried out in line with their own and the background of the times, but the big historical facts, major contradictions and the fate of characters must conform to history, and the "living standards" of historical figures cannot be fabricated and distorted.
Specifically, it can involve real historical figures, can also mix fictional figures (unimportant figures) with historical figures, and can also focus on describing a historical event.
It requires the author to review history based on reality, but it must also describe history according to its original features, artistically reproduce social life in a certain historical period, reveal the inevitable trend of historical development, and make readers understand history and get enlightenment from it.
Taking "Zhang" as an example, throughout the book, the author's wonderful writing of Wanli New Deal lies in controlling court expenses and controlling the power of eunuchs' consorts. Because the author accurately grasps the relationship between Zhang and, the little emperor, likui jy and others in history, there is truth and falsehood, and the truth and falsehood are handled properly, and the thoughts and spirits of the characters are naturally revealed, which is very lively.
The author bluntly said that the historical view he created is fourteen words: "Don't talk about heroes with morality, but seek for the well-being of ordinary people".
Extended data:
The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a long historical romance novel written by novelist Luo Guanzhong in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. After the book was written, several versions of this work spread around the world, such as Jiajing Renwu Edition. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Mao Zonggang adapted The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, revised its wording and changed its poems.
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the history of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, mainly describing the war, telling the story of the warlord melee in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and military struggle between Wei, Shu and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty.
It reflects the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period, summarizes the historical changes of this era, and shapes a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms