On The Review Study On The Images Of Xue Baochai And Lin Daiyu In The Recent Fifty Years

As the most resplendent pearl in the history of Chinese classical fictions, though born just over two hundred years ago, Dream of the Red Chamber has significantly influenced the literary production and cultural development after it, due to its centuries-old historical charms and profound literary contents. Being the two main characters of this novel, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai have been especially showing the essence of Chinese traditional culture as well as reflecting the traces of the development of a nation. Thus, many scholars multi-dimensionally comment and comprehend Lin and Xue from every aspect with their own specific time backgrounds and artistic judging criteria, in attempts to discover from the portraying in the literary works the variance of national cultural mentalities and the development of artistic psychologies behind the words.This article is not merely an enumeration in a simple sense, but a re-pectination and an induction of the representative articles reviewing Lin and Xue since the 20th century;it analyzes the trends and rules of the study on Lin and Xue in a way of artistic classification with temporal continuity, combining with the historical characteristics and literary backgrounds of different times. In particular, it summarizes the discussions on Lin and Xue in 1930s, 1940s, the 17-years-literature period in 1950s, the Cultural Revolution period, and the focuses with social standard ideologies in the Reforming and Opening period in 1980s, the deepening development period in 1990s, and in the new century, to find out the traits of the study on Lin and Xue in over a hundred years just in a more clear and complete way. Moreover, through such exploration, this article means to track out the rules of Chinese literary development in a hundred years, the relationship between literature and politics, the mode of the blending and conflicting between Chinese and western cultures, the characteristics of the new development of traditional culture, and the new methods and trends of the study on literary review and study.