The Research On Brothel Novels Of Tang Dynasty

There are many brothel novels in Tang Dynasty and they achieve great success. Theynot only character a lot of vivid, different types of brothel women but also influence thelater works greatly by their writing styles and structure patterns. We can find original storiesof the brothel novels of Tang Dynasty in the love stories of Yuan Dynasty and relationalstories of Ming and Qing Dynasty.The passage focuses on four parts as follows:The first part describes the brothel culture and its development, explains the meaningof brothel culture, draws the outline of its forming and what is more,I analyze the excellentworks which are written in the process of communication between Scholar and Prostitute.On the whole, the brothel novels of Tang Dynasty can be divided into three different types:eulogizing the ethics and morals, advocating the religions thought and praising the freedomof humanity. The three kinds reflect the change of former and later Tang’s society and thechange of requirement for women.The second part analyzes the women figures of brothel novels. There are threedifferent kinds of harlots: beautiful women, talent women and the miracles. According totheir fates and ending, there are five types: happy ending, departing ending, becoming amonk or nun’s ending, dead ending and miserable ending. Their miserable fates prove thatthe women in brothel of Tang Dynasty are humble and they can not control their fates bythemselves.The third part focuses on the social culture’s inner meaning of the brothel novels, itanalyses the effects on the novels and authors brought by imperial examination system,marriage system and literati atmosphere. The imperial examination system offers chances ofbecoming officers for the scholars, but it is hardly to succeed. The scholars in Tang Dynastyconsider that it is an honor to marry the Wu—Xing women, aiming at obtaining the wholefamily’s glory and more good chances for themselves. The women in the brothels are verypopular in Tang Dynasty, the scholars make good friends with them and then obtain soleconsolation whenever be successful or not. When they are successful, they are respected byall the others, but when they are unsuccessful, their sadness of not being valued and theirpity of unable to contribute to the country can just share with the brothel friends or write intheir works. The fourth part focuses on the effects of the brothel novels.Most love stories of YuanDynasty and the humanity novels of Ming and Qing Dynasty are adapted from the brothelnovels of Tang Dynasty, and they are related. The love stories novels of Yuan, Ming andQing Dynasty basically originate from the style of Tang’s brothel novel’s gifted scholarsand beautiful ladies. But with the change of social factors, the scholars during that time cannot compare with those in Tang dynasty, they lose the proud status as “head of Si—Min”and they are not valued by the government, as a result, their works mostly describe thepsychology of retireing from the world and sadness. The scholars can just stay in thebrothels, seek the women friends and write the dream of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies,so that they can hold their dream of being successful and emotional.