Commercial Culture And Jin Ping Mei

Literature expresses culture and culture is the profound of literature. Only unique culture can produce unique literature . Jin Ping Mei is a speciality in the classical novels because it shows a special commercial culture . This uniqueness makes the characters , families and society of the book show the difference from tradition .Commercial culture is the sum total of made of thinking , value trend ,moral concepts and life attitudes which formed with the development of commerce . It changed the pursuit of justice in tradition and pursuited profit bravely ; it negated the feudal society's suppression of human's desire and advocated human nature . It brought in the idea of competition , which clashed with feudal agricultural economy system with slow rhythm . It existed with the existence of commerce and developed with the development of commerce .Characters showed the characteristics which are different from tradition in commercial culture . Xi menqing tried to pursued profit and sexual desire . When he accumulated his wealth , he also destroyed the feudal system . His capital continually changed into commercial capital, not land capital, which showed the decline of feudal economy system . The appearance of Ying bojue had a typical meaning , Who was the embryo of broker in early China . This was the result of economic development and division of labor in society . Pan jinlian and Li pinger killed their husbands and married Xi menqing . Although their actions were immoral, they paid attention to human desire and personality's liberation. This kind of special characters had great something to do with comerical culture and the social thought trend of personality's liberation in the late Ming period . Chunmei was a rare servant who was not like a servant in classical literature . The wonder of her fate from a servant to an honorable woman showed the daily slack of the feudal loyalty sense and feudal personal attachment relationship .The family organization based on patriarchal blood was the basic structure of feudal country . A whole set of courtesies in feudal society were all based on families . Family is a stable social unit, but at the same time , it was also a changing historical phenomenon . With the change of historic period , social production style and life style , the family's nature , structure , morality of the Ming Dynasty brought a series of change in sense . In Jin pingmei people paid no attention to the women's virginity . Women can choose their spouses by themselves . Remarrying was very common , sexual behavior was to enjoy oneself, not for having a son to carry the family name , which even had obvious character of exchange ofcommodities . Xi menqing' family was feudal one from appearance , but in fact , it had new changes . It not longer told the honor from low by title , but by profit .The relationship of the family is employers and employees to a large extent , which is the bud of capital employing relationship .Commercial culture's influence on political relationship was to change the whole ruling circle into economy circle . Bureaucrats were only interested in money . Money became the host of law . The influence on economy relationship speeded up the declining process of natural economy, the economy base of Chinese feudal system, while the fact was that Chinese feudal forces was too strong made the commercial culture have strong feudalism , so independent market system was very difficult to form . Commercial capital could not go on to change into productive capital. All these weakened the push forces of commercial culture to social advance . commercial culture influenced social customs greatly , which caused worship of money and pursuing profit beyond justice .Literature is a mirror of reality and imitation or reappearance of the world . The appearance of Jin Ping Mei was not occasional , a large amount of materials proved that it was true that there were two economy formations in the middle and late Ming Dynasty , two cultural forms . At this time , the influence of feudal traditional...