On The Descriptions Of Banquets In A Dream Of Red Mansions

There are quite a number of descriptions of banquets which have formed a distinct set from the beginnings to the end in A Dream of Red Mansions. There content is extensive. There taste is elegant, and there intention is profound. There are new qualities that are different from former novels in both the descriptive features and the narrative functions. In the descriptions of banquets, imaginary paint and imaginary creation have been directly turned into narrative means and have been merged into narrative course, connecting the florid poetry and the incisive philosophy with the whole narration. By innovating, the descriptions of banquets in A Dream of Red Mansions have transcendence in its aesthetic intention, and have gone beyond the area of only being a narrative material. These special plots have presidential effects on the whole story and play an important role in narration.This article analyzed the features of the descriptions of banquets and the functions of the narration in the first. Second, it examined how A Dream of Red Mansions had inherited and exceeded former novels on the descriptions of banquets by comparing it with other Chinese classical novels, especially with Jin Ping Mei.