The Reception Of Zhi-ping For A Dream Of Red Mansions

Zhi-ping revealed and expounded the writing features and artistic quality of ADream of Red Mansions from the perspective of art criticism for the first time, it is “thefirst reader” of the A Dream of Red Mansions’ reception history, it indicated the directionfor making a correct evaluation of A Dream of Red Mansions’ classic and artistic value,and provided a reception pattern for the future recipients, so it has important academicvalue. The thesis based on A Dream of Red Mansions’ accepted history, explained thefeatures of Zhi-ping and eventually revealed its importance in the accepted history of ADream of Red Mansions.There are four chapters in the thesis. Chapter one discussed the form of Zhi-ping as“First Reader” of A Dream of Red Mansions and its reception vision, and revealed thenature and location and guiding ideology of Zhi-ping for the reception of A Dream ofRed Mansions. It is the macroscopic for Zhi-ping.Chapter two analyzed the rich and varied reception methods of Zhi-ping throughgiving the examples of metaphor, text reading, close book and close eyes, dialectic withcompare. The richness reception ways not only provided an advantage for Zhi-ping,which can make a multi-angle and multi-level understanding of A Dream of RedMansions, but also reflected the higher literary quality of Zhi-ping.Chapter three explained the reception features of Zhi-ping. The writer of Zhi-pinghad a closely relation with Cao Xueqin and familiared with the creation materials of ADream of Red Mansions, coupled with its keen sensibility and higher artistic quality, ithas a unique reception personality. The similar life experiences between the writers ofZhi-ping and the writer made it easier to produce spiritual and emotional resonance at theprocess of reading and reception, and often enter into a reception realm of forgettinghimself and the world and had a deeply realize and understanding of the ideologicalcontent and artistic quality of the work, which guided the public’ reception direction and values.Chapter four revealed the important influence and significance of Zhi-ping in theclassic process of A Dream of Red Mansions. The paradigm reception and criticism ofZhi-ping on A Dream of Red Mansions was the beginning of A Dream of Red Mansions’classic, its significance for the study of A Dream of Red Mansions should not beunderestimated. The future researchers of A Dream of Red Mansions, especially fictioncriticism researchers, mostly along the direction which opened Zhi-ping to explore andinnovate continually, and continuing the career of classic’ heritage and guardian.The timeless of classic is not only the transcendence for time and space, but also itcan continue to generate under the new historical circumstances, and always keep newthrough a very long time.A Dream of Red Mansions will be an endless topic forever.