In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was defined as "a novelist, founded by officials, gossiping in the street and creating according to hearsay" in Han Art and literary history. It has a similar meaning to today's novels.

In the history of China literature, novels are divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels. China's classical novels, which originated in the pre-Qin period, are a kind of records. In the Tang Dynasty, there were two kinds of novels: note novels and legendary novels. There are many such works in Zhuangzi, Mencius and Shi Shuo Xin Yu.

Vernacular novels originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties, that is, the speaker in the tile shop in today's history books refers to the storyteller. The scripts they use are drawn from the people and show their lives and thoughts. For example, The Journey to the West's Romance of the Three Kingdoms was re-created by the author on the basis of previous comments.

During the New Culture Movement, people who advocated vernacular Chinese, such as Lu Xun, began to write modern vernacular novels, such as Kong Yiji and Diary of a Madman.

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