"Account Book" Style of Narrative and Textual Construction of Ancient Chinese Novels

Ancient Chinese novels are usually narrated chronically like and this is similar to the narrative style of gives rise to the name of account book style of narrative.It is firstly a quasi-history narration.Due to the rigid chronic order of narration,ZHANG Zhu-po and others are reluctant to define Plum in the Golden Vase as this kind of novel,which purposefully confuses narrative time.They advocate the pursuit of narrating the story instead of keeping book,which shows the aspiration of surpassing history instead of quasi-history.In fact,account book style contributes to the textual construction of novels due to its culture details.On the one hand,Buddhist cause-and-effect concept propels the emergence of account book style of novels concerning borrowing and lending;on the other hand,Taoist merit and demerit concept leads to this kind of novel concerning good and evil and retribution.