A Study On Reader Acceptance Of Jin Pi’s Water Margin In Qing Dynasty

Since its publication,The water Margin commented by Jin Shengtan,has been constantly enriching the meaning of the text in the circle of readertext acceptance chain.The evaluation and interpretation of Jin Pi’s Water Margin by readers in different periods are not only influenced by literary field,trend of thought and social fashion,but also serve to express political positions and political ideas.This makes the reader’s acceptance of Jin Pi’s Water Margin show obvious stage characteristics.Readers’ evaluation of Jin Pi’s Water Margin not only affects literary activities such the continuation of Water Margin and novel comments,but also changes the textual appearance of Jin Pi’s Water Margin.After investigating the study on the readers’ acceptance of Jin Pi’s Water Margin in Qing Dynasty,we can explore the historical process and evolution mechanism of the acceptance of Jin Pi’s Water Margin from the relationship between readers and text.On the other hand,we can examine the relationship between the readers’ acceptance of Jin Pi’s Water Margin and the mainstream literature and political discourse from the readers’ value judgment and historical positioning of Jin Pi’s water margin.From this,we can understand the text influence and value limit of Jin Pi’s Water Margin caused by the complexity of readers’ literary acceptance behavior.The first chapter mainly explores how readers in the early Qing Dynasty recognize and understand Jin Pi’s Water Margin.In the context of the revolution of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,readers’ discussion on the loyalty,capitulate and entice others to thieve of the water margin shows a tendency of conflict and contention,but the psychological crux behind it is highly similar.Readers’ textual interpretation of Jin Pi’s Water Margin,social evaluation and the inheritance of comment mode show three characteristics: venting the pain of subjugation,expressing national consciousness and publicizing political discourse.Some people put the pain of national subjugation that is difficult to relieve in the evaluation of "thief book";Some people express their national consciousness and cultural identity of the Ming Dynasty by criticism of the Water Margin;Some people refute the orthodoxy and legitimacy of the Qing government by reinterpreting the concept of loyalty;Some people publicize the consciousness of political participation and political discourse of obedience to the Qing government or the Southern Ming Dynasty by evaluating Jin Pi’s water margin.In the early Qing dynasty,the text acceptance of Jin Pi’s Water Margin was closely related to political issues,showing the psychological trauma and spiritual dilemma caused by the change of The Ming and Qing dynasties.The second chapter,taking literati readers,novel critics and novel bookseller as investigation objects,explores the readers’ acceptance of the literary concept,Literary criticism behavior and value evaluation of Jin Pi’s Water Margin in the early and middle Qing Dynasty.Although literati readers recognize the literary aesthetic and practical value of Jin PI’s Water Margin,but they deny its literary status,Just think of it as a toy on the desk.It makes Jin Pi’s Water Margin unable to enter the mainstream of literature and presents an embarrassing situation.Most of the novel critics consciously imitate Jin Shengtan’s literary criticism concept to support his journey from the "edge" of literature to the "center".However,the novel critics represented by Zhang Shushen were inspired by the fact that Jin Pi’s Water Margin could not fit the aesthetics of Qianjia’s academic scholarship,so they took the initiative to accept the mainstream discipline and adjust the ideas of criticism.In order to obtain the mainstream recognition,they add knowledge and neo-confucianism to enrich their fiction criticism,highlighting the value of novel for practical use.The counterfeiting of Shengtan’s Book and The Book of Ten Talent by novel bookseller not only consumed the commercial value of Jin Pi’s Water Margin,but also damaged its social reputation and cultural character,foreshadowing the demonization of Jin’s water Margin.The third chapter mainly discusses the readers’ acceptance of Jin’s Water Margin in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.From the orthodox literati’s point of view,the imitation of Jin Pi’s Water Margin by ordinary people,Such as fighting,illegal assembly and other illegal acts,Not only harmful to the stability of social order,but also stimulates political crisis such as the scourge of bandits and the civil coup.The imitation of Jin Pi’s Water Margin by literati readers is not only harmful to their temperament and education.More importantly,it Promote new stylistic changes in China’s poetry and prose criticism,and great harm to the deterioration of literary style on the Korean Peninsula.Jin Pi’s Water Margin has the harm of impacting social order,mainstream ideology and literary circle.This makes the Qing dynasty and gentlemen have to work together to implement the policy of banning and destroying novels in order to prevent its circulation.However,the top-down administrative means and supervision network,and the bottom-up establishment of bureaus to collect and destroy pornographic books and public opinion monitoring,and the idea of prohibition and destruction proposed by Yu Wanchun.Although it has achieved certain results,but they failed to effectively cut off the circulation of Jin Pi Water Margin,which makes it is still in the dilemma of being excluded by the mainstream and difficult to ban.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the reception of Jin Pi’s Water Margin in the late Qing Dynasty.After Liang Qichao put forward the slogan "novel is the best of literature",the concept of water Margin in Kitamura saburo’s Biography of The World’s Hundred Masters,Mori Kainan’s Lecture Notes of Chinese Novel,and Sasakawa lang’s The History of Chinese Literature were introduced into China one after another.This not only overturns the traditional literary concept of the novel,but also is regarded by critics as the theoretical basis to enhance the literary status of Jin Pi’s Water Margin.When the disadvantages of new novels in translation and creation are prominent and can’t play the social role of improving group governance.Critics turn to use new ideas to explain the meaning of Water Margin,so as to eliminate the negative influence of the old ideas,and label it as a new novel such as political novel.After forced interpretation,Jin Pi’s Water Margin has the same social function of improving group governance as the new novel.After forced interpretation,Jin’s Water Margin plays the same social role as the new novel in improving mass governance.With the political and educational function of literature,Jin Pi’s Water Margin can really get rid of its marginal identity and become the center of the literary world.In addition,critics’ interpretation of Jin Pi’s water Margin is always closely related to politics.Some people take this to publicize the political discourse of constitutional monarchy and explore local autonomy by Water Margin figures to call for political reform.Some people take this opportunity to promote the political discourse of promoting civil rights,restricting monarchical power and reducing official power,and to publicize the political idea of opposing feudal autocracy and demanding equality and freedom to readers.Some people take this opportunity to satirize the Qing government,ridicule the monarchy,and deny the actual effect of the Qing government’s preparation for constitutionalism.Some people took the opportunity to advocate national consciousness,propagate against manchuria’s revolutionary thought,and express the political ideal of overthrowing the feudal autocratic of the Qing Dynasty.And Some people look forward to establish a democratic regime in which all the people enjoy sovereignty and everyone is equal and free.The fifth chapter is the conclusion.By vertically combing the reception process of Jin Pi’s Water Margin in Qing Dynasty,we can find that literati readers mainly interpret and value it from the relationship with mainstream literature and politics.The two lines of literature and politics intertwined and influenced each other,which formed the diachronic clues of Jin Pi’s Water Margin in Qing Dynasty.