The Faith Token In The Talented Men And Beautiful Women Novels At The End Of The Ming Dynasty And The Beginning Of The Qing Dynasty

The faith token, as the thing between the men and the women, develops following the love culture to be well-established. It develops from primitive taboos and the worship, and is influenced by the Buddhist literature. In the cultural custom emphasis and the literature it becomes one kind of collective unconsciousness fixedly to get down. The faith token holds the some space not only in expressing feelings in the literature, moreover in playing the role similarly in the narrative literary of love novel. According to differently acts as the thing as well as the circulation way, in the talented men and beautiful women novels at the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of Qing dynasty, the acts as the thing of the faith tokens are mainly divided into three kinds: things of the next to the skin, the inherited things and the prose the next to the skin. The circulation ways of the faith tokens might induce four kinds approximately: male delivers female faith tokens, female delivers male faith token, the man accidentally ascends the lost things of the female and the men and women is related through marriage delivering the thing. But the different types of faith tokens and their literature performance are containing the rich literature traditions, the cultural anthropology, the folk custom and so on. The talented men and beautiful women novels at the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty have the prominent formulation pattern in the structure, and the faith tokens have become the universal existence stage prop form in this kind of novel works, therefore also are similar to the stage prop image characteristic and the esthetic function. At the same time, regarding novels, the concrete application of this stage prop form increases the novel character images and the character dispositions, and causes" thousand human of at the same time" talented men and beautiful women novels unique when pursuing love . It has increased the play ingredients into the novels, causes the plot structure legend, complex, to be more vivid. In addition, faith tokens, loading bearing character emotion and its ideal faith, often reposes author's ideal and lose, and is one kind of idealized esthetic image...