A Research On The Character Comments In Comments On The Golden Lotus, New Version With Illustration

Comments, as the basic form of novel criticism in ancient China, reached the zenith during the Mingand Qing Dynasties.In the period of the rule of Tianqi and Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty, the anonymousComments on The Golden Lotus, New Version with Illustration was the first one which rewrote andcriticized The Golden Lotus, and one of the first works in the history of novel comments. It explores aboutthe aesthetic value and artistic features of The Golden Lotus with certain profundity, especially oncharacters. This paper studies comprehensively the character comments in Comments on The Golden Lotus,New Version with Illustration, analyzing and evaluating them in two aspects:character-judging andcharacterization theory.This paper is divided into the introduction and the body.The introduction mainly defines the object, the current state and the significance of the study.The body is the main part, divided into three chapters:The first chapter classifies the comments in Comments on The Golden Lotus, New Version withIllustration on the characters in the novel The Golden Lotus. In Comments on The Golden Lotus, NewVersion with Illustration, the anonymous author comments various characters in The Golden Lotus.However, to be more concentrated, and based on the the comments in Comments on The Golden Lotus,New Version with Illustration, this paper take only Ximen Qing, Pan Jinlian and Wu yueniang for examplesto explore the author’s objective, comprehensive and insightful comments on the characters in the novel.The second chapter interprets the characterization theory put forward by the author of Comments onThe Golden Lotus, New Version with Illustration.It’s further divided into three parts. The first partexamines the statement of "the inherent development of human emotion" from Comments on The Golden Lotus, New Version with Illustration in three aspects: the historical cognition of emotion in Chinese novelcriticism, the emotion of "the inherent development of human emotion" and the means to fulfill "theinherent development of human emotion". The second part mainly deals with the author’s full awareness ofthe generality, individuality and complexity of characters shown in the character comments. The third partdeduces from the comments such characterization skills as plain description, insinuation, innuendo andcomparison,etc., and explores the insightful induction of the author of Comments on The Golden Lotus,New Version with Illustration of the artistic means of characterization.The third chapter discusses the historic status and the influence of the character comments inComments on The Golden Lotus, New Version with Illustration. It is divided into two parts. The first part,through the comparison of the comments by the author of Comments on The Golden Lotus, New Versionwith Illustration, Zhang Zhupo and Wenlong on Ximen Qing, Pan Jinlian and Wu yueniang and thecomparison of Comments on The Golden Lotus, New Version with Illustration and the comments by ZhangZhupo, clarifies the influence of the author of Comments on The Golden Lotus, New Version withIllustration to the other two people. The second part looks into the far-reaching influence of thecharacterization theory of the author of Comments on The Golden Lotus, New Version with Illustration,thus revealing the unassailable theoretic value and historic status of the comments in Comments on TheGolden Lotus, New Version with Illustration.