The Comparison On The Lamp Over The Branch Road And The Golden Lotus

This paper is the comparative research on The Lamp Over the Branch Road and The Golden Lotus.This paper at first reviews the research history between The Lamp Over the Branch Road and The Golden Lotus. The Lamp Over the Branch Road spreads comparatively late, in that the research between The Lamp Over the Branch Road and The Golden Lotus is accordingly late. In this respect, although many people made a great deal of pioneering researches and made some extent achievements, the research is still not comprehensive and thorough, thereby, further research becomes necessary.This research paper contents the criticism, inheritance, impersonation and surpass. This paper contents four chapters.Chapter one is the opposition between The Lamp Over the Branch Road and The Golden Lotus. This chapter first investigates and analyzes the specific represents of Li LÇœyuan and The Lamp Over the Branch Road's towards The Golden Lotus, which is to indicate the critical attitudes towards in the poem, to insert the author's direct or indirect criticism in The Lamp Over the Branch Road and to criticize through the discourses of characters in The Lamp Over the Branch Road. Afterwards, this paper analyses the reason of Li LÇœyuan's criticism to The Golden Lotus from four aspects, that is Li LÇœyuan's dense natural science ideas, his life experiences and life attitudes, his traditional literature concepts of"literature for moral instruction"as well as the thought defects of The Golden Lotus itself. All of these reasons brings about and influences Li LÇœyuan's evaluations towards the contents of The Golden Lotus. Finally this paper analyses The Lamp Over the Branch Road's enlightenments from the criticism of The Golden Lotus, that is to say that the creation direction is sure, which is"quanshi"and"shushi"(to educate and civilize people) instead of scolding the world, and which is to write in clean words instead of pornographic descriptions. Chapter two is the inheritance of The Lamp Over the Branch Road to The Golden Lotus. Through comparing these two books, the author finds that these two books extent storylines towards one family, and that the hero's family development backgrounds are similar; these two books reflects the theme that personal success or failure influences the rise and fall of the whole family through the heroes'way of life. It illustrates that The Lamp Over the Branch Road inherits The Golden Lotus in arts. In addition, this chapter discourses characteristics on the moralization contents and sermon: The Golden Lotus frequently inserts the author's comments in plot account while The Lamp Over the Branch Road also has cultivation and presents the characteristics of analogous cultivation, which is also the inheritance of The Lamp Over the Branch Road to The Golden Lotus.Chapter three is the impersonation of The Lamp Over the Branch Road to The Golden Lotus. This chapter mainly discourses in three parts: imitation of portrait, inheritance of plot set, apply of details description. This chapter discourses Li LÇœyuan's impersonation of The Golden Lotus in arts.Tan Shaowen and Xi Menqing, Xia Fengruo and Earl Ying are similar family background and life experiences, etc. these two books both have the similar descriptions of brother sworn and funerals. The details descriptions of family configuration and furnishings in these two books display obvious inheritance.Chapter four is the surpass of The Lamp Over the Branch Road to The Golden Lotus. In this chapter, different from the extreme educational mode of flight fire with fire, The Lamp Over the Branch Road mainly carries out positive education to enlighten people of the important significance of family education, employing tutors, social contacts and self controlling force in the life development. In structure, The Lamp Over the Branch Road constructs the book centering Tan Shaowen as the key character, which makes this book the only magnum opus consciously relating story with"one key character". In portrait, The Lamp Over the Branch Road portrays the image of loafer Tan Shaowen chopping and changing fantastically, loyal servant Wang Zhong as well as many female images such as Mrs. Wang, Kong Huiniang and Wu Cuijie.. this book achieves the surpass to The Golden Lotus in character portraits. The last part, the conclusion of this paper, makes a conclusion of this paper and makes a point of this paper.