What novel is Jin Xiaorou?

"Romance" is naturally very close to the original meaning of romanticism. Lu Xun wrote this article in 1907, when China's romance novels were still in their infancy.

In the late Qing Dynasty, China translated a large number of western novels, including a large number of romantic love stories, which were then called "romance". For example, Wu specially wrote an article "Romance" to comment on western novels: "The atmosphere of drama, the romance between men and women, and the form of pen and ink are not very taboo. The love he said is love rather than ambiguity.

With the name "romance", people began to trace its history. It is found that romance novels actually have a long historical tradition in China, which should at least begin with The Romance of the Tang Dynasty. Later, all kinds of talented and beautiful novels involving love should be classified as romance novels.

The core development of romance novels;

"Romance" can not only trace back the history, but also expand the boundaries. First, romance can't be written exclusively for romantic love stories, as long as there are elements of romantic love stories, they may all be included in their categories. For example, many scholars think that A Dream of Red Mansions and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio are all romance novels.

Secondly, romance can be not only a novel, but also any other genre, as long as it can tell a romantic love story, such as drama, TV series, animation, songs, photography, poetry and movies. But interestingly, in people's rough knowledge, only those who tell the love stories of young men and women are called romance.