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Ming And Qing Social Thought And Human Sex Novel Concept

Posted on:2006-01-09Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J QiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360152981226Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Literature can't expel the sexual love. As the highest form of narrative literature, the art of novel even can't abandon the sexual love phenomenon in the life. The present research condition for sexual concepts of human feelings novel of the Ming and Tsing dynasty does not assort with the status of human feelings novel in the novel history. The purpose of this article is, by some pertinent review and neatening on the complicated performance of human feelings novel's sexual concepts of the Ming and Tsing dynasty, to try to find out the track of evolvement of it and the rules it contained.No matter what kind of research we carry on, we need to define the research object and its scope. The research object of this article is the sexual concepts of human feelings novels of the Ming and Tsing dynasty, including imitating story novel, bel esprit and beauty novel and raffish novel. Research scope with The Golden Lotus and A Dream of Red Mansions for marking, limits its research within the near 200 years of intervals. It makes a pilot study and definition on the conception and meanings of sexual concepts, concisely reviews the research condition of the sexual concepts of human feelings novel, points out the necessity of study in this field, and introduces the study method and the direction to make for.Since the middle period, the Ming dynasty tended to be corruptive in polity, prosperous in commodity economy. Merchants got into higher class, the Yangming heart theory prevailed, the attitude and personality of scholars began to turned to be multiplex, the society indulged in orgie, and the works of literature advocated extreme feelings, personality and egotism. With the Tsing dynasty replacing the Ming dynasty, the scholars were mauled heavily both in bodies and hearts by the drastic change of the society. Their thoughts of personality fell gradually, however, the thoughts of solid scholarship rose gradually. During the Kang and Qian grand period, the economy was recovered, the society turned to be stable, culture became flourishing, renascence grew up, the control for marriage was more strict, which caused the controversy on the problem of chasteness, the novelists turned their attentions to some social problems pertinent with individual closely, who created some works with strong anti- rational theory which representing the voice of the time, such as The Scholars , Strange Tales of Liaozhai, A Dream of Red Mansions.In the late Ming dynasty, The Golden Lotus came into being suddenly, which represented the feelings of human and the ways of the world with a realistic writing style, and became a foundational work in human feelings novel. The Golden Lotus fully exposed human desire, described the darkness of the society, dredged up the weakness of human nature. It seemed not to appreciate beauties, but to appreciate ugliness. It had certain effect on anti- feudalism and social morals objectively. The concept of commodity loving and lechery became a keynote of mate choosing and marriage in the late of the Ming dynasty, and affected therelationship between men and women deeply. Ximen Qing madly chased after and plundered" money and sex", and went overboard for sexual satisfaction and sexual adoration. Pan Jinlian and other women chose Ximen Qing based upon" money and sex", which showed the indulgence of orgie at that time. According to the moral standards of feudalism, the author depicted each kind of female in his book with different writing methods; arrange them with different fates, implemented chastising education. There were collisions between the moral judgment and the characters because the sexual descriptions and the inbeing of the characters did not accord with each other. The more the sexual descriptions were, the less the power of education was. The indulgence of orgie engulfed the flag of moral education, which resulted in contradictions and divergence between the deep textual construction and the surface tenet of education in The Golden Lotus. ,The level of light novel was improved rapidly for the participation o...
Keywords/Search Tags:Ming and Tsing dynasty, social trends, human feelings novel, sexual concept
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