The Study Of Legal Cases Mentioned In A Dreeam Of Red Mansions

A Dream of Red Mansions, as the leading work of the " four famous classical works" in china is an "encyclopedia" book The content of this novel is comprehensive and it encompasses all aspects of the feudal society including the marital love, the administrative style and achievements of local officials , patriarchal Ethics , education and examination system, the sexual problems, the folk custom issues, the rights of women, maid system, taxes system and so on. But due to the need of more professional knowledge and its complexity, legal case story as an important part of the novel, arouses a few people's interest and for many years ,the systematical studies to it are seldom done. However, with further research, we will find that the legal case story appears not only in the narrative plot of the whole work from time to time, covering a large part, which turns out to be a leading clue, obvious or hidden, for our sideways understanding to A Dream of Red Mansions. In addition, through the series of the legal case stories, its critical and disclosing theme is deepened, which plays an irreplaceable role in its theme, characters shaping, plot development and so on. The systematical study is helpful for us to put forward some new ideas and proofs in the further study of ancient legal novels in China.This paper, combined with the text of A Dream of Red Mansions, will give a systematical discussion from the following six aspects. Firstly, it gives a rough statistics about legal case stories in" A Dream of Red Mansions". Then, the author makes an analysis of the characteristics of the legal case stories description and the breakthrough of traditional legal cases in this novel. Third, from the angle of legal cases, a profound theme reflected in this novel is concluded. In the following part, an analysis to the characterized images of it is made. After that, the author analyses the"point-to-line" function of the legal cases in the network structure of the novel. Finally, through the research to the novel, the author will give a discussion of his understanding to ancient china's justice culture.