说外国朋友说起中国的文学著作，第一时间你想到肯定是《西游记》、《红楼梦》、《水浒传》和《三国演义》，那四大名著用语怎么介绍呢？
1.《水浒传》
Shuihuzhuan, one of the four famous works in China, is a long chapter novel with the Songjiang Uprising in the late Northern Song Dynasty as the main background and type of heroic legend.
Authors or editors are generally regarded as Shi Nai'an. Most of the existing publications are signed by one or both of them, Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong.
《水浒传》，中国四大名著之一，是一部以北宋末年宋江起义为主要故事背景、类型上属于英雄传奇的章回体长篇小说。作者或编者一般被认为是施耐庵，现存刊本署名大多有施耐庵、罗贯中两人中的一人，或两人皆有。
2.《三国演义》
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the four famous classical works in China. It is the first full-length historical Romance novel in China. Its full name is The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms).
The author is Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty.
《三国演义》是中国古典四大名著之一，是中国第一部长篇章回体历史演义小说，全名为《三国志通俗演义》（又称《三国志演义》），作者是元末明初的著名小说家罗贯中。
3.《西游记》
Journey to the West is the first Romantic chapter novel about gods and demons in ancient China. There are 100 copies of Journey to the West in the existing Ming Publications without the author's signature.
Wu Yuxuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, first proposed that the author of Journey to the West was Wu Chengen of the Ming Dynasty.
《西游记》是中国古代第一部浪漫主义章回体长篇神魔小说。现存明刊百回本《西游记》均无作者署名。清代学者吴玉搢等首先提出《西游记》作者是明代吴承恩。
4.《红楼梦》
A Dream of Red Mansions, a Chinese ancient chapter novel, also known as Stone Records, has been listed as the first of the four classical works in China. It is generally believed to be written by Cao Xueqin, a writer of the Qing Dynasty.
《红楼梦》，中国古代章回体长篇小说，又名《石头记》等，被列为中国古典四大名著之首，一般认为是清代作家曹雪芹所著。
