On The History Of Accepting About The Images Of Jin Ping Mei

Jinlian Pan, Pinger Li and Chunmei Pang are three major female characters that theauthor portrayed in "Jin Ping Mei". My paper intends to discuss its value and significancewithin about 400 years through understanding of readers in various periods from thepublishment of "Jin Ping Mei" till now. In analyzing approach, it focuses on aestheticexperience of readers in various periods towards Jin, Ping, Mei and investigates intently theaesthetic reaction of them, which paves the way for researching the development and reasonsof aesthetic concept and value tropism, connecting the readers' aesthetic experience historywithin about 400 years and merging the historical view and realistic view. According to different cultural backgrounds, the history in which Jin, Ping, Mei areaccepted is divided into four stages. The first stage is the fruitful and colorful accepting phase.By exploring the evaluation and understang of authors of preface and after word,commentators, writers of chapters and dramatists, varity of accepting forms in this period wasreflected. The second stage is about age consciousness and understanding of Jin, Ping, Mei atthe first half of 20th century. A number of advanced intellectuals, who went through baptismof New Cultural Movement, got rid of the traditional moral criticism, subjective and intuitivethinking way and value concept, began to understand Jin, Ping, Mei by using new ageconciousness and value criterion. It reflected variety in thinking way. The third stage is theunderstanding in special political background thirty years after establishment of New China.In this period, because politics interfered with culture and arts, readers' aesthetic right wasdeprived. As a result, to study Jin, Ping, Mei was difficult and the images of three characterswere hardly accepted. The last is the variety of accepting view from 1980s till now. From thebeginning and middle of 80s the readers began to change their attitudes towards the imagesand feelings of Jin, Ping, Mei. My paper, by exploring readers' thinking concept, aestheticconsciousness and the changes of researching methods, makes the varity of accepting viewsstand out. The process in which Jin, Ping, Mei are accepted in about 400 years reflected thechanges of the aesthetic consciousness and value concept of readers in different eras.Moreover, it also reflects internal colorfulness and abundant potential of the images of Jin,Ping, Mei. I believe, with the development of age and depth of study, the value of the threeimages will be further discovered.