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To Specify The Lower Lobe Of To Wuyue Urban Entertainment Culture And The Public Literature

Posted on:2005-10-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J DaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360125454424Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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The research purpose of this article is to explain the relationship between the citizen literatures in Ming Dynasty and city entertainment literature and thus revealed the basic characteristic of it. As to citizen literature in Ming dynasty, this article hold the following points: it is popular in the city: it. can satisfy the citizen's demands in literature and enjoyment of entertainment; it's main description centered around popular living scenes and emotional purposes; to some degree works reflecting and collecting rebelling thought and value of the time can all be looked on as the subject of this paper. Therefore this article hold that entertaining is not only the living style of citizen literature but also the internal rules of the context and form and it's the covering color of new humanism thoughts.The first part of the article is focused on the explanation of Wu Yue city entertainment literature and look into the living situation.First it researched the environment of city entertainment from the aspects of substance and spirit. During late Ming Dynasty, economy of city commodity is advanced, especially in Wu Yue area which is famous for its wealth. Its economy was in a leading position and the standard of urbanization was also the highest. From the aspact of prevailing social custom. Wu Yue literature was a word of fashion and it had an obvious advantage in area literature. From the aspect of country's literature policy. it was different from previous severe punishment. In the Late Ming Dynasty the upper ruler hardly interfered in entertainment literature. And from the aspect of philosophy, the thought of heart rose, admitting that people's demands for entertainment was right and it provided another possibility of the survival and development in urban literature, in all. from the aspects of substance and spirit, city literature had no living obstacle in the late Ming Dynasty.Then from of the constitution of city entertainment culture, it analysed the relation between entertainment activity and citizen literature. In the late Ming Dynasty, plays of festival entertainment were more and more important. Sing without musical instruments was prosperous, from which we can see the process of transformation in southern and northern tunes and the trace of how tunes came into the scholar's class. Citizen literature was various and had clear characters. Performances of talking and singing etc. which were based on citizen literature or were seen in citizen literature works, reflected some characters and trend of citizen literature.Amusing places in Ming Dynasty were various and special to that time. It was in chapter 4. The most popular was halls, especially sitting room of families, which was closely related to the fashion of feeding family theatrical troupes and building large villas for amusement in that time. The most important amusing occasions were banquets. The fashion was centered around gangues and plays. In addition, there were other peculiar things: temples. Square and lakes and rivers.Chapter 5 focused on the transmission of citizen literature. Urban entertainment had "on the spot spread" and "publishing spread". Different spreading ways haa great impacts on the literature content. The play script was different from reading materials.Players made it more rich. From the catalogue of bookstores we can know the spreading of books was amazing and the most popular books are clear. The prosperity of Wu Yue publishing made it self become the center of citizen literature spreading. "The stage" and "Publishing" to gathers contributed to the prosperity of the spreading of Wu Yue amusing culture and citizen literature.The rest part of the article is focused on the revealing of citizen literature's character. The citizen literature in late Ming Dynasty was restricted by the living style-"urban entertainment culture" and was influenced by new humanistic thoughts ofthat. The two factors mixed together and decided the character.The new humanistic thoughts spread widely in Wu Yue area. The main advocates...
Keywords/Search Tags:Wu Yue, urban entertainment culture, citizen scholar:citizen literature, new humanistic thoughts
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