Research On Poems And The Genius And Beauty Novels In The Early Qing Dynasty

Different literature forms, such as poetry and novels, developed in different dynasties. Poetry, which had become the most flourishing style in Tang Dynasty since The Book of Songs, was applied in Tang's Romance, and the combination of poetry and novels began since then. Borrowing the artistic experience of fiction, diction, lyric and aspiration from poetry, novels of this period reflected such aesthetic features as curiosity, rhetoric, euphemism and intense emotions.With the development of urban economy, novels concerning sexual passion overflew in the late Ming Dynasty. In the early years of Qing Dynasty, the gifted scholars and beautiful ladies novels prevailed in the south of the Yangtze River, including Pingshanlengyan a Romance, Yujiaoli, Haoqiu Zhuan, The Biography of Jin Yunqiao. The fresh romance described in these novels drew people's attention, so this style spread quickly at the time. Poetry was wildly used in the novels, verses and rhymes being quoted. The description of characters, the plot and the atmosphere formed the poetic style with intense emotions in it, adding poetry to narration, artistic features, and aesthetic value of the novels.Poetry performed well in the novels, either in creating characters or in narration, expressing the writers'feelings or creating atmosphere. The scholars of middle and lower class released their ideals and unrecognized talent by reading and writing the gifted scholars and beautiful ladies novels. In fact, the scholars of middle and lower class expressed a mixed feeling of love and hate for the imperial examination, by creating the beautiful ladies'appreciation of the scholars or the scholars'success in the imperial examination in the end. On one hand, they expected to have their names on the list of successful candidates; on the other hand, they were discontented with the failure in the imperial examination.