On the Inheritance and Development of the Classical Mystery Novels

The development of Chinese classical novel has a long history and the inheritance of the mystery novels has its own contexts and characteristics.Those novels originated from the Classic of Mountain and Sea.The content and characters of these novels inherited the previous works.The structure inherited the previous novels and had some change.The plot and the language were also as the same as the previous ones.Based on the inheritance,the characters of the later mystery novels developed and became more perfect than the previous novels,so did the content and the plot of the novels.At the same time,the later mystery novels showed higher writing skills in structure and expression than the traditional ones.