Fake Mask: Ghosts And Gods Images Analysis Of Zi Bu Yu

Yuan Mei is a very famous poet and literary figure in Qing Dynasty. His poems, prose writings and initiated "XingLing Style" have an excellent reputation in Chinese culture history. But his Literary Sketch–"Zi Bu Yu"does not get enough premium like his poem writing and theory from researchers.Actually, there is great thought and art value in YuanMei's"Zi Bu Yu", especially for images of ghosts and gods. The ghosts and gods images are not only very different with monster novel of Wei and Jin dynasties, but also have quite unique characteristics comparing with its contemporary best works–"Masterpiece"and"Sketches of YueWei Humble Cottage".Actually, the most unique characteristic of ghosts and gods images is the people with masks. That means ghosts and gods are only tools to recording absurdity of human life. The images of ghosts and gods in literary works have features of mortal's weak points and shortcomings and standing for wickedness of human natures. So ghosts and gods images of"Zi Bu Yu"are the novel images most closed to human.As for the reason of images of ghosts and gods appeared in Yuan Mei's"Zi Bu Yu", on one side, the attitudes and ideas of treating ghosts and gods is developing following the developement of times and progress made in economy and science. Ghosts and gods are changing the roles from being on high position and different species to closing to human beings. The creating attitudes of authors were also changed from "reality recording" to "self-entertainment". So it is not strange for the birth of"Zi Bu Yu"after appearence of monster novel of Wei and Jin dynasties. On the other side, Yuan Mei's sepecial career and thought determined that it was"Zi Bu Yu"figured out this sepcial ghosts and gods images, not other works.The most of existing researches of"Zi Bu Yu"are only limited in the research of themes and thought or comparing with"Masterpiece"which is the peaked works at that time. The innovation of this article is that it is the first time to analyze the unique ghosts and gods images in"Zi Bu Yu", exposing its characteristics and exploring its reasons. The main method used in this article is comparing. In order to introduce the unique characteristics of ghosts and gods in"Zi Bu Yu", this article will sort out the different sources of monster subjects, expose the trend of "personality" "human feeling" of ghosts and gods images, conclude that it is the unavoidable trend "mortal similar" phenomenon existing in"Zi Bu Yu".Additionally, this article is comparing"Zi Bu Yu"with its contemporary works"Masterpiece"and"Sketches of Yue Wei Humble Cottage". The comparing includes both ghosts and gods images comparison and authors' comparison. Just because of different personalities of three authors,"Masterpiece","Sketches of Yue Wei Humble Cottage"and"Zi Bu Yu"were birthed with three different styles.The images of ghosts and gods in Yuan Mei's"Zi Bu Yu"have high thought value and artistic value. As the criticizing tool against dirty side of human, these images hit the ugly phenomenon at that social environment, just liking sharp and effective weapons. These images of ghosts and gods have great artistic values according to subject, imagination and humour characteristics.