How the“Stereotyped Writing”Affects the Narrative Structure of the Four Great Novels of Ming Dynasty

A number of Chinese earliest novels came into being in Ming Dynasty. Novelists, who created The Golden Lotus, Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms and so on, were under an enormous influence ofStereotyped Writing. Studying all these masterpieces, we can see that the writers used the same structural morphology for reference spontaneously. As a result, there was a clearwriting consciousnessandwriting styleexisting at the beginning of all the novels' creation. This narrative technique broke through the structural pattern of traditional western novels which always put the plots and characters' destinies on the first place and also opened up a new form for the structure of Chinese novels which tookcultural structureas a theme to pursue the unity and integrity in a novel.