The Study Of Classical Chinese Novels On Family Theme Of Ming And Qing Dynasty

Family novel is an important part which has most culture connotation. In recently years, several chapters on family novels have already made some achievements, but few people set foot in the study of family theme novels. Based on the writing of major family relationship about father and son, brothers and couples in Chinese classical novels of Ming and Qing dynasties, the paper will make some analysis about culture and text, perspective on the effect which the mainstream thinking have on family theme novels, understand literati’s family ideal in the special times, discuss the world thinking reflected from the family life of Ming and Qing dynasties, and mine the author’s philosophy thinking on etiquette and human with the background of times. With the combination of text, the paper will undertake concrete analysis for the narrative features of classical family novels of different times. The paper will compare similarities and differences in the narrative intention between family novels and vernacular short novels and chapter novels, and discuss the depth of thought and aesthetic characteristics of classical Chinese family novels.The first chapter:The chapter will overview literary and historical background as well as its own development status of Ming and Qing classical Chinese family novels. Before Ming,though the classical Chinese family novels are short and simple, they still accumulated material and writing experience for Ming and Qing dynasties.From the ideological perspective, before Song dynasty the novels had more simple thinking on family ethics, and in Song dynasty they had more theory. Ming and Qing dynasties is a time when the social life had great changes. The political, economic and culture characteristics of the times deeply affected the creation of classical Chinese family novels.classical Chinese family novels would be divided different stages because of the impact of contemporary culture.The second chapter:In the traditional society of China, the human relations of father and son are the most important content in the family ethics, and confusion culture on the relationship between parents and children is a loving father and faithful son, which are also mainstream ideology vigorously promoted in Ming and Qing dynasties. Therefore, the classical Chinese novels with the theme filial piety are numerous, which are carried forward on the similar work especially "YiJianZhi". They showed some new changes on the narrative content and narrative strategies, trying to make the story more moving. At the same time they contained the content of era, such as using filial piety saying loyalty and scholars, and discussing the world’s secular effect on the relationship between parents and children, and so on.The third chapter:The couple does not exist blood relations, mainly rely on emotion and etiquette to maintain, lack of certainty, and there are a lot of variables. Therefore, the couple relationship will show a variety of forms. The family theme novels, on one hand, inherited and developed the writing of the couple love and ingratitude before Ming dynasty, and promoted the traditional chastity view, to motivate scholars and shift custom; on the other hand, the family novels from "Cut Light stories" expressed an ideal of marriage:Marriage is not just the responsibility and the moral content, but also the couple emotion harmony. In "Yiyuti" novels it performed more focused and typical, and its marriage ideal and writing pattern learned from each other with "A Dream of Red Mansions", and mutual influence. At the same time, the paper will have a further discussion with the phenomena since the late Ming dynasty that the couple emotion were distorted, and the supreme code of ethics were merciless challenged for the erosion of the wealth,fame, lust and other trend of times.The fourth chapter:In classical Chinese novels of Ming and Qing dynasties, the writing of brotherhood basically inherited the previous story mode in which brothers are friendly or abused brother and bad little brother. However, the former novels didn’t descript the brotherhood with the legendary novel. The legend novels with family theme,especially legend novels in Qing dynasty, descript more on the competing interests among brothers in reality, partially attenuated ethical preach color of early classical Chinese novels, through the description of out-of-order brothers, to reflect the reality of the end feudal world.The fifth chapter:Select the family theme contents of "GuJinTanGai"," LiaoZhaiZhiYi","YueWeiCaoTangBiJi" and "YingChuangYiCao" as a case study, to reveal the scholars’ reflection and the new change on family narrative from the late Ming dynasty to KangQian period."Ancient and modern overview", as the represent of "XiaoLin ti", reflected the traditional family ethics with the spirit of banter, and had the significant influence on later family novels." LiaozhaiZhiYi" are more sensible in the human and law thinkilng, with the narrative techniques of classical and popular fiction, making family novels up to a new level from content to art, and drove a team legend novels appeared which were affected by " Liaozhai";"YueweiCaoTangBiJi" probed the contradiction between emotion and theory, and the pertinence is more vivid. Though no talent work, it is natural and wonderful in a few words.The sixth chapter:Concerning on the narration and appreciation of the beautiful of novel written with classical Chinese in Ming and Qing dynasty. Vernacular short family novels pay attention to the popular acceptance, which were often full of contradiction in ethical preach, family life, as well as family law and human relationship. Chapter novels had more profound thinking on family problems, so it had more similar character with classical novels. Chapter novels also had differences with elegant and popular, the profound chapter novels descript human’s heart more, and little with interest, and embodied the aesthetic character of classical Chinese novels.Through analyzing the version, the text stresses on three type family connection of novel written with classical Chinese in Ming and Qing dynasty, which reflecting the vicissitudes of family ethics in different time and different author. The text reveals new property in novel written with classical Chinese concerning family theme, analyzing it’s narration and appreciation of the beautiful in order to grasp these novels through diverse pattern.