The Research Of Yao Hua Legend

Novel Yao Hua Legend was written by Ding Bingren in Suzhou mid-Qing Dynasty. It is a full-length vernacular novel. The book contains42Chapters in total, which made a complete story about a male fox had reincarnation and experienced the various circumstances of human world, finally becoming the Sword immoral. Since two hundred years ago the novel came out, for various reasons the book has not been widely disseminated and gotten the attention, and the book has long been repeatedly listed as a book that is forbidden to read. So it is not easy to be concerned by people, so that it has not been able to cause researchers’ attention.The author of Yao Hua Legend, Ding Bingren, lived in the late Qing Qianlong to early Jiaqing. His hometown was Suzhou. He always had long-term travel in the country, and had accumulated a rich life experience. The ancient version of Yao Hua Legend contains Shenxiu and Taoyin. Yao Hua Legend has come down to South Korea in the age of Big Korea so far it also has the Korea version. This legend has the characteristics of the historical novel. The main characters and plots in the novel can be found the traces.Yao Hua Lengend persuades people of the world to stop lascivious life and begin a new life. This is the purpose and the theme of it. It shows the obscene luxury life style the ruling class corruption in the late Ming Dynasty. It describes the life of the populace in dire straits so it leads to think over the causes of the Destruction of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, Women Emancipation reflected in Yao Hua Legend is commendable. And it promotes gender equality, allowing women to participate in politics, affirming the role of women in social activities. All of these thoughts were progressive at that time.The confluence of historical fiction novel, Heroic Legends, Ghost Stories and worldly novel is a new mode of writing, a trend of the development in fiction history, "Yao Hua Legend is a typical representative works of the art model. On arrangement of the plot, Yao Hua Legend has also made great achievements and it has a high reading value.The novel also has limitations, such as obscene and brutal descriptions in some sections. And it did not have a correct understanding of the peasant uprising. All these factors reduce the style and realm of the book. In a word, we should analyze Yao Hua Legend from a comprehensively, objectively and fair fairly. To make it return to the original face it used to be, and to evaluate it that deserves, are the direction of today’s researchers should strive to.