A Study Of Flowers And Plants Imagery In The Dream Of Red Mansions

The dream of Red Mansions is a masterpiece in the history of Chinese novels,even in the history of the world’s.Because of the literary and incomparable academic value,it attracts a generation after generation to study it,and gradually develops into a special knowledge called "Red mansions".The full text is divided into five parts:The introduction part introduces the topic’s value,significance and the related research achievement Summary.In the dream of Red Mansions,the images of flowers and plants are splendid sight,whether in the fiction or in the realistic garden,whether in the poetry or in the character description,the flowers are everywhere.Although the academic circles are concerned about this,but the focus is often focused on a specific flower of the study,and the "dream of Red Mansions" flowers and plants as a subject of research research results are very limited.This thesis is based on the literature of flowers and plants ’ images in the dream of red mansions,through combing and analyzing the description of flowers and plants in the dream of Red mansions,this paper makes a deep interpretation of the text,from the whole,systematically,comprehensively and deeply grasp the function meaning of the flowers ’ imagery in the book,deepen the understanding of the connotation of the flowers and plants in the dream of Red Mansions,And put forward some of my own opinions.The first chapter,"A Dream of Red mansions" flower description general.This chapter on the "Dream of Red Mansions" flower description of the number of statistics.In the dream of Red mansions,it participates in specific plots,and for portraying characters,rendering environment,expression of emotion and other services such as up to 93 kinds of flowers and plants in the "dream of Red Mansions" in the nature of the classification,can be divided into four categories: too unreal land involved in 23 kinds of flowers and plants,the actual garden of the most flowers,the main point is Jia Fu,Among them,there are 73 kinds of plants and flowers,and there are 55 kinds of flowers and herbs in poetry and prose.Borrow things to write 7species of flowers in the first 80 back and 40 back after the flowers are described,the two statistical analysis and comparison found that: the continuation of the flowers and the original,not only the number of disparities,the category function is also weakened,The most important thing is that the image of Begonia flower bearing rich connotation has a fundamental inversion.Chapter Two,the literary symbolic meaning of flower imagery in the dream of Red mansions.Based on the literary tradition of flower imagery,this chapter analyzes the three-dimensional image of the flowers in the red mansions.In the way of flowers,the formation of the Red Buildings Chai Youth beautiful,more romantic but ultimately perish of the symbol system and to flower God-kao-flower Lord as the center,a person to many flowers,a flower to many multi-dimensional three-dimensional network symbol system.The symbolic connotation of osmanthus fragrans imagery is the most complex and pluralistic.The sweet-scented osmanthus is also involved in the process of male group and family decline,which embodies the rich social connotation,and the color symbolic system in the flower image has far-reaching significance.Red as the iconic color in "dream of Red Mansions",not only symbolizes the eruption of Dai Daiyu’s Tears of blood and vitality,but also symbolizes the high ambition and Rex character of the Tan Chun,and symbolizes the imperial power of Yuan Chun.Take the cold fragrant pill as the representative white as the special color of the Bao Chai,symbolizes her elegant and clean style and the inhibition of life enthusiasm.The third chapter,"The Dream of Red mansions" grass image of the literary symbolic significance.On the basis of tracing the literature tradition of "Vanilla beauty",this chapter analyzes the symbolic connotation of red mansion vegetation.The immortal grass represented by Lin Daiyu is the highest model of the spiritual beauty,Xue Baochai represents vanilla is the universal standard of secular beauty,Jia Tanchun represents the sentiment beauty of the value of the pursuit of the three together to form a fairy grass-vanilla-jia mu tripod pattern;Other vegetation imagery can not be ignored.The bamboo imagery highlights Daiyu’s Blood and blood implication and gentleman’s integrity,the image of banana is poetic and realistic,andthe image of Catkins is more rich and pluralistic.In addition,the name of the fifth generation of Jia’s descendants embedded in the plant,in order to express its beautiful symbolic significance of the reality of the contrast,very ironic.The fourth chapter,"The Dream of Red mansions" the artistic function of flower image.The image of flowers and plants is an indispensable symbol system in the dream of Red mansions.The plots of flowers and plants promote the development of the whole novel plot,they are not only coherent in Huitian arrangement,but also coincide with the fate of Jia’s rise and fall in content structure,accord with "transforms" the Creation theory standard.Plot development,Flowers described in the novel as an important plot at the same time,also became a bridge cleverly and naturally connected with the plot of the bridge,play the role of the past and the past;In particular,the flower activities,it clearly highlights the plot of the novel’s logical Structure,The rotted and prosperity of flowers and plants implied the rise and fall of Jia The honor and disgrace of Jia Fu is also directly projected on the flowers and plants,the two interweave and blend together,reflecting each other,and experiencing the obscurity,prosperity,pragmatism,decay and the demon of five periods;and,the flower image and the character Perfect Circle melts,manifests in the personage’s name,alias,even in the residence,displays the character destiny and the spiritual style.The conclusion part summarizes the whole text,and once again emphasizes the significance of the study of the flower image in the dream of Red mansions.