Contain Seriousness In Humor, To Perspective The Society--Exploration Of The Humorous Novels Of Ming Dynasty

With the special aesthetic effects of "contain seriousness in humor, to perspective the society", that is to embody the serious ideological contents in humorous stories , Chinese ancient humorous novels let people have a taste of various flavors of life in the artistic world of "laugh" which is pleasant or relaxing or freezing or indignant or suffering unspeakable.Chinese ancient humorous novels is a dynamic and developing concept ,and in Dynasty Ming it reachen the summit.In the period not the ideological contents but also the artistic attainments were improved greatly.The whole thesis taking the humorous novels as the basic point ,is divided into five sections.The first section is a brief account of ancient humorous novels ofChinaThis section is aimed at making sequences of ideas of Chinese ancient humorous novels clearly.lt is divided into two parts:the first one is the literature positioning of Chinese ancient humorous novels,which includes the introduction of the origin about the novel's concept and the literature positioning which belongs to the anecdotage of literary sketches and being literature works .The second is about the origions and changes of Chinese ancient humorous novels.Chinese ancient humorous novels belong to the literature works and it is a dynamic and developing concept ,so the part attaches the importance to introducing the origin and development outline of different historical periods.The second section is to take an overall view of the ideologicalcontents about the humorous novels of Ming DynastyThe scholars of Ming Dynasty were unconventional and unrestrained and liked ridicules,but the darkness of the society cast thick shadow in their minds.They weredifferent from the Wei-Jin well-known scholars who used drinking too much indulging and not bothering about customs to disguise painful and heavy minds,but touched disguise and ugly phenomenon of the society with their pens.So,the contents of the humorous novels of Ming Dynasty had the characters of social reality,high political sensitive,apparent cultural ideology ,different emotion sative,etc.The third section is a glimp of the artistic characters about thehumorous novels of Ming DynastyThe humorous novels of Ming Dynasty possesses dual aesthetic characters,namely"contain seriousness in humor,to perspective the society".So,the complicated contents arei carried with diverse artistic means.Humorous novels in Ming Dynasty embody seriousideological contents in humorous artistic styles,enlarged darkness of everywhere of the society artistically and sketched all kinds of feudal society in artistic world of "laugh" .But the difference of certain historical background decided that each period has its own literatuers,so the artistic characteristics of humorous novels of Ming Dynasty can be divided into two stages.The forth section is to express intention and realease feeling - -the humorous novels of Ming Dynasty looking after the Ming scholars'psychologyA lot of literaties enjoyed teasingjoking and speaking joks by special organization.This social phenomenon was much stronger than that of Wei-Jin;Nevertheless,this special cultural phenomenon was produced under the background of dying Ming Dynasty.The reason was that it had close relation with variation of socia} philosophical ideological trend.Beginning of "Mental Theory"by Wang Yangming,preaching Wang Yangming's theory by Wanggen,Luo Rufang from "Tai Zhou Schools"and even Lizhi's " T heories Of Children's Phychology"called a result of combination of both Confucianism and Buddhism,neither Confucianism nor Buddhism and Taoism explained by Confucianism.The significance of changes of philosophy trends wasthat it caused ideological trends of individuality liberation and created tolerant social environments.The fifth section is the influence of humorous novels of MingDynastyWith profound ideological contents and exquisite artistic techniques,humorous novels of Ming Dynasty influced many later literature forms greatly,for examp...