Try To Discuss The Breakage Of The Traditional Model Of Writing About Liberators And Prostitutes In The Novel Of The Late Qing Dynasty

As early as the late Qing Dynasty ago, the description of prostitutes loving scholars has a long history in the classical Chinese novel. During the Sheng Tang dynasty, the massive legends, JI Chuan may see the clue to prostitute's record. The late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty, LI Xiangjun, Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan, and other beauties, the story of their tortuous individual emotion is always closely linked with the rise and falls of the nation, thus has spread out a profound historical thickness for these romantic stories. But to courtesan's legendary life, the future writers, in their liberal expression, couldn't help expressing their admire to their uncommon destiny, no matter what being full of praise, and feeling indignant. To the latter Qing dynasty, this kind of brothel literature had the astonishing growth in quantity and the length. Because of the depraved theme and the obscene color and exaggerated atmosphere in this kind of novel, the critics insisted for a long time criticizes in this kind of novel's research work. But what we cannot deny is in these novels has some fact. We may see the transition characteristic from classicalism to modernism from these romantic stories. We may also see affliction and struggle which the scholars faced times change from these hackneyed stories.Hua Yue Heng, Flowers in Shanghai and A Flower in the sea of Degradation, as outstanding work of brothel literature this time, emerge the scholars'helpless which their origin mainstream social status encounters challenge of increased social stratum and powerless which they are lacking the ability to change what they would like, at the turn of society from the new to the old. With this kind of spirited shackles, the late Qing's brothel literature has displayed the different place to the other same theme. In these works, some simulate the traditional subject which courtesan loves the scholars but changes the prostitute for the chaste wife and deduct the romantic atmosphere to the acme; some open the synthetic veil of the romantic imagination and depict the real life scene of courtesans carefully by Elegant style which the courtesan struggle contradictory in individual emotion and the severe reality; some change the romantic writing and remodel"the beautiful girls"to the"evil portents". But this kind of subversion actually reveals the courtesan's Flexible social skills and intense sensitivity to the Society from another side. Thus, during the social agitation, we can see all sorts of collision about the traditional virtues and the sprout of the modern moral values. Two social stratums of the merchant and the writer are rising and falling; the prostitute feels helpless when they struggle between the individual emotion and the survival pressure, facing the transformation from the old customer to the new and the decline of the professional technique and the charm oppression of the money. In brief, in this period of the social transition, the brothel literature, as one kind of spiritual home of the writers, could not conceal the writers'unwilling but helpless mood actually, no matter what they praise or censure prostitutes which once Shared weal and woe with them when the scholars are pushed away from the central place of the social stage.To being worth comforting, in the brothel literature, in this blockhouse which encircles by the words, they are also having the absolute domination. Therefore, through the strength recomposition about the present and past in the works, they expressed sighing with sadness which one went through life without a good opportunity in the present.But the times already changes after all, the sand sculpture of cannot undergo the realistic wind and rain, they realizes clearly to this point. in magnificent brothel of imagination, they can't also help disclosing and sighing deeply when sun is setting .