New Jin Ping Mei, Complete Works of New Jin Ping Mei,精彩 Stills of Pan Jinlian in New Jin Ping Mei

The Jin Ping Mei is the first full-length novel independently created by a scholar in the history of Chinese literature. Since then, novels created by scholars have become mainstream. The existing full-length novels before the Jin Ping Mei all drew materials from historical stories or myths and legends. However, the Jin Ping Mei got rid of this tradition, and took the people in realistic society and the daily life of a family as its theme, making the realistic creative method of Chinese novels increasingly mature, and explored and prepared for the subsequent appearance of the A Dream of Red Mansions.