The Analects of Confucius was written at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (about the middle and late 5th century BC). It was compiled by Confucius' disciples and their descendants several times.

Historical Records was written by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty and was written in the second year of Zheng He.

The earliest edition of Jinling Shidetang in The Journey to the West was published in the 20th year of Wanli (1592), with the title of Journey to the West in the Newly Carved Elephant Palace.

A Dream of Red Mansions was written in poverty after Cao Xueqin went bankrupt. The creation time is from the early years of Qianlong to about thirty years of Qianlong.

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The content of The Analects of Confucius mainly discusses various thoughts of life. Doctrine adheres to the doctrine of the mean, and narrative strives to be simple and clear. It has its own indelible value and position in the category of classical literature. From this, we can know that the profound insights of Confucius, the most holy teacher, and his kind and gentle personality are enough to be a model of our integrity and inspiring.

Historical records complement each other with these five different styles, forming a strict system, and comprehensively describing the social and historical development from the legendary Yellow Emperor to the early years of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty. His view of history has great progressive significance and critical spirit.

The Journey to the West successfully created the Monkey King's artistic image with romantic creative techniques, praised his indomitable spirit of defying violence and overcoming difficulties, and expressed his strong dissatisfaction with the dark rule of feudal society.

A Dream of Red Mansions describes a big feudal aristocratic family, but it reflects all the realities of the later feudal society, and is known as the encyclopedia of China feudal society. By describing the love tragedy of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu, the book expresses the hazy ideal of the rebels in the late feudal society of China.