The Study Of "romantic Affairs Of King Yangof Sui Dynasty"

Romantic Affairs of King Yang of Sui Dynasty, a book of fourteen chapters was compiled by Qidong Yeren of Ming dynasty. Referring to a great numbers of novels in Tang and Song Dynasty and official history and other historical materials, the author recorded the whole life of King Yang in an autobiographical structure and the way of traditional narrative history among the people, which reveled the boom and slump of the feudal dynasty and reflected social reality of Ming Dynasty, with relatively high ideological level and artistry quality.From the ideological level the novel criticized the current society by comparing it to the history, which veritably reflected the political features and social reality of the middle and late Ming Dynasty. The novel, aimed at summing up the experience from the rise and fall, could be used as a source of persuasion and reference for readers. King Yang of Sui Dynasty, a dissolute and cruel king portrayed in this novel, was a real portraiture of prurient kings of Ming Dynasty, while the general historical backgrounds in the novel was real reflection of political realities.Besides, the novel achieved relatively high artistry quality. With numerous quotation and creation of poetry, ironical writing and the vivid demonstration of royal palaces and gardens, the novel showed the author's high level of literal accomplishment and artistry innovation. In regards of the material selection, characteristic portraiture and intellectual innovation, the novel was a definitely superb novel dealing well with the relationship between real history and historical novel after the novel of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and also a great work of social relationship after The Golden Lotus and before A Dream of Red Mansions, so it had a profound influence on a series of historical novels of Sui and Tang Dynasties, romantic novels and novels about social relationship as well.