Jin Shengtan's Interpretation Theory About "the West Chamber" Criticism

Jin Shengtan's criticism of "the west chamber" occupies a unique and important position in the history of Chinese literary criticism, and the most striking feature of his literary criticism is the free interpretation of the will. We can roughly understand Jin Shengtan's interpretation theory about "The West Chamber" criticism from four aspects.Firstly, the historical coordinates about Jin Shengtan's criticism of "the western chamber". Make a comprehensive investigation of "the west chamber" comment system and study status about "the west chamber" criticism, in order that we can clearly know the important historical status of Jin Shengtan's criticism of "the west chamber", including explanation theory that needs to be in-depth studied. Secondly, the basic content of Jin Shengtan's explanation theory about "the west chamber" criticism. It includes three points: the interpretation standards based on literariness and feeling, the dominant position of readers, and the religious coloring mixturing three religious teaching. Thirdly, the formation mechanism of Jin Shengtan's explanation theory about "the west chamber" criticism. Mainly formed by interaction of the individual factors, social factors, and geographic factors. Speaking in detail, that is profound literary accomplishment and strong desire of creation, enlightenment and literature trends in the Ming dynasty, the outstanding ethos of "wets" in Suzhou. Finally, the value and meanings of Jin Shengtan's interpretation theory about "The West Chamber" criticism. It mainly includes meanings to literature itself and to the realization of the critics'value. The former including those aspects, the meaning realization and the value-added achievement of literary works, the in-depth understanding of literature, the development of literature dimension. The latter relates to the establishment of an independent character of the critics and the criticisms activities.