Novel of the West Lake flourished in the late Ming dynasty, and it's prosperity reached the top of publication until Zhou Qingyuan's"Xihu Er Ji". Comparing with previous Novel of the West, the scholastic color of Zhou's "Xihu Er Ji" became more obvious; Zhou use The West Lake Image to render stories atmosphere, and harmoniously Blend Together the stories and those The West Lake Image; The stories add Esthetic Implication for The West Lake Images, the later supply poetic atmosphere with literati character. In this poetic atmosphere, Zhou Qingyuan expressed his sadness in the troubled times, and recalled the bustling previous one. Even more important, as a novel to the West Lake in late work, when "Xihu Er Ji" processed The West Lake Images,it put up both the integration of the work,and more thing of strong contrast in the beautiful lake mountain of joy and sorrow to the last days of the generation, so they can showing ZhouQingYuan unique "West Lake" more profoundly. |