<P> Classic Chinese Novels is one of several terms used in sinological scholarship to refer to various groupings of the four to six most well - known traditional Chinese novels . A very often used term is Four Classic Novels, which includes Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Water Margin and Dream of the Red Chamber; yet another is Six Classic Novels, which additionally includes The Scholars and The Plum in the Golden Vase . These are among the world's longest and oldest novels, and they are the most read, studied and adapted works of pre-modern Chinese fiction . </P> <P> Several terms have been used to refer to the novels and various subgroupings of them . The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, Dream of the Red Chamber have been called the Four Great Classic Novels (Chinese: 四 大 名著; pinyin: sì dà míngzhù; literally: "four great masterpieces"). Another term used is Classical Novels (simplified Chinese: 古典 小说; traditional Chinese: 古典 小說; pinyin: gǔdiǎn xiǎoshuō). Prior to the composition of The Scholars and the Dream of the Red Chamber, the earlier four began to be referred to as the Four Great Masterworks (simplified Chinese: 四 大 奇 书; traditional Chinese: 四 大 奇書; pinyin: sì dà qíshū; literally: "four extraordinary books"). </P>

The four great classical novels of chinese literature
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