Comment On Wei Zhongxian Image In Vernacular Novel In The Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasties

Eunuch, as a special class in the ancient Chinese society, on the one hand, because of their physical disabilities and humble origin, people despised; On the other hand, they managed to close to the peak of power and played a decisive role in the ancient society of political, the historians had become helpless and had also had to be attention to them. The great eunuch Wei zhong xian who lived in the end of the Ming Dynasty is a typical representative of such figures. Not only in the history of academia that Wei should not be underestimated, but he got more attention in that literature area. These colloquialism novels discussed in this paper created in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, told that the celebrity Wei zhong xian's story of ups and downs, and built Wei zhong xian's eunuch-image, which become the particular existing in the literature history. This paper is divided into four chapters, at first it gave the history of eunuch and eunuch literature-images in the introduction. And the first chapter introduced the truth that Wei zhong xian destroyed the country and the people according to the history, which because of emperor's fatuity and the centralized imperial power radically. The second one presented the literature background of those novels' rising, then explained Wei's images according to different texts; Third chapter gave Wei's image analysis and comparison, and treated his images before his success more prominent; Chapter IV from Wei's image, excavated cultural interpretation, and anatomyed the profound influence come from the society custom which pursued the riches and honour in the late Ming Dynasty to the people.