Research On Caizi-Jiaren Literature Of Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasty

There're two different definitions of the Caizi-Jiaren literature. The broad sense refers to the literature that depicts and narrates the stories about love and marriage between talents and beauties while the narrow sense refers to the Caizi-Jiaren literature with aptotic type in late Ming and early Qing period. This essay discusses the narrow definition of the Caizi-Jiaren literature in late Ming and early Qing period whose type mostly includes traditional opera and novels. On account of the same theme and mode, even more the close affiliation, the traditional opera and novels in Caizi-Jiaren literature should be taken as a whole when get researched.The basic character of Caizi-Jiaren literature comprises of four essentials. First, both principal male and female characters are talented and good looking. Secondly, the hero and heroine convey their tender feelings by poems. Thirdly, the villain of the piece makes trouble. Fourthly, a happy ending is needed. Chapter one reviews how the Caizi-Jiaren mode comes into being in late Ming and early Qing period with the background of talents and beauties'love literature. Chapter two reviews the inheritance and evolution of Caizi-Jiaren literature mode in late Ming and early Qing period. Chapter three makes further research on the various styles of Caizi-Jiaren literature emphasize particularly on the aesthetic taste. Chapter four mostly investigates the non-core features and secondary plot, especially their evolvement and meaning in the development of Caizi-Jiaren literature.This essay provides four innovations. One is making an overall research on the traditional opera and novels in Caizi-Jiaren literature which helps grasp the proceeding of Caizi-Jiaren literature more accurately and analyze the respective development of the traditional opera and novels more clearly. Another innovation is taking elaborate delineation and construe about the formation and causation of Caizi-Jiaren literature mode which reach its climax in late Ming and early Qing period which induced by the mutual influence of the talents and beauties'love literature's development and the era requirement and essentially it's the production of the combination of literati tradition and folk culture. Still another innovation is for the first time in academia divides Caizi-Jiaren literature into six types and discusses deeply the features of different work style. The final innovation analyzes the change of the non-core elements in Caizi-Jiaren literature with whose representation and penetration it not only indicates the inner self- adjustment and the digestion of Caizi-Jiaren literature with other literature types but also shows the dynamic evolution of Caizi-Jiaren literature in late Ming and early Qing dynasty.