Research On Novels About Gifted Scholars And Beautiful Ladies Of Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasty

Novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty is a branch of ancient human feelings novel. In the literature, it is a fragile link and at the same time a necessary link. In fact, it functions the medium from Jin Ping Mei to Hong Lou Meng. So, novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies of late Ming and early Qing Dynasty is a kind of worthy phenomenon in ancient human feelings novel. But for a long time, the research on novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies of late Ming and early Qing Dynasty is very weak. Therefore, I write this thesis from both macroscopic and microscopic sides, in which discuss the aspects of this kind of novels, such as love and marriage characteristic, beauty mode, plot structure art, etc, and probe into the literature relation about this land of novels and the love legend of Tong Dynasty, Jiao Hong Zhuan in script for story-telling of Yuan Dynasty and the Hong Lou Meng, making effort to have an overall, objective and accurate analysis to the novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies of late Ming and early Qing Dynasty.This thesis is formed of following several parts mainly:The part of the preface is the explanation to novel classification names of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies, the brief introduction of production and studying about the novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies of Ming and Qing Dynasty, and the synthesis describes of this kind of novels.The first part is about the course of development on novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies. Along the development orbit towards the love novel of Han and Wei Dynasty, the love legend of Tang Dynasty, the novel of script for story-telling of Yuan Dynasty, and the human feelings novel of Ming and Qing Dynasty, this thesis describe systematically on the course of development of novels about gifted scholar-beauty, sketch the contours of appearance of scholar and beauty on the literature scene, the scholar-beauty image development, composition mode of the novels about gifted scholars and beautiful ladies, and the simple thread of the structure frame transform of this kind of novels.The second part is about the romantic love of the novels of gifted scholars andbeautiful ladies. Taking the love characteristic of gifted-scholar romance into account at the era background of change of philosophy ideological trend, this thesis analyzes the ideal love mode, independent love pursue of " in Confucian against Confucian", and pure love behave restrained themselves. Therefore drew a conclusion that the love mode of " sexual charm, talent, passion " did not take off classical rational tradition yet, but have more development than the love ideal of " well-matched pair " of love novels of former generations.The third part is about the ideal marriage of novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies. Comparing with love tragedy of the novels of former generation, the novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies of Ming and Qing Dynasty realized the ideal marriage based on love in conception and included permanent value on marriage issue. However, those ideal marriage were begged by the Confucian and realized by the Emperor. So, they were created out of author's idealized soul. Though the author's soul ideal were feeble and immature, it is the stage must be passed by in the course of mankind towards free marches of human nature after all, should have pity on and can not sweep down.The fourth part is about the beauty mode of novels of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies. In this kind of novels, numerous beautiful ladies came on one after another and concentrate on established within one period. They were given " sexual charm, talent, passion " by the authors. No doubt, this beauty mode had showed requiring overall to women on moral, culture, desire and emotion of male scholars, after all, having given the new essential element different from the beauty mode of former generations-talent, become a noticeable humane scenery in the novels of human feel...