The Influence Of Ye Xiaoying, A Female Student At The End Of The Ming Dynasty, On The Literature And Art Of Later Generations

At the end of the Ming Dynasty,poetess Ye Xiaoluan is the representative of Jiangnan talented women.Though the legendary and tragic life,she has a certain impact on the later literature and art.For the reasons of the individual and the times,whether she was alive or behind,she was praised in excess.As a result,she was thought to be a fairy.When she is alive,she is good at art and literature,what's more,the moral character together with talent and appearance of hers counts as one of the very best,too.Thus She is proud of her nature and looks forward to the life of celestial beings.However,the strange thing is that there is a lot of indescribable sorrow in her writings and she finally died only five days before marriage.After she passed away,her parents miss her so much that place the hope on various ways of consulting celestial beings.As a result,some mages tell them that Ye Xiaoluan is a female celestial of relegation,yet another one says that their daughter is the younger sister of Xu Feiqiong,whose name is feijiu,both are female celestials.Besides,a few mages drew on the sour of Ye Xiaoluan then paint pictures of her to meet the demands of her parents.So many ways of consulting celestial beings above all as well as wonderful meeting in dreams which many relatives and friends of Ye Xiaoluan saw her becoming a female celestial constituted the original image of her.With the development of literature and art of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,The image of Ye Xiaoluan changed constantly,and strangely,the image of a female celestial deliberately shaped by others become independent and far away from her.After the selection of history,as a result,the image of hers returned a talented girl,which eventually stayed in the snippet of burying flowers of the protagonist of a famous novel,whose name is called Lin Daiyu.The thesis is divided into four chapters to discuss:The first chapter the family education of Ye Xiaoluan introduces the growth experiences of her,telling about the influence of her forester parents(also uncle and aunt)and parents,and the hobbies of that time and social,such as believing in Buddhism and Taoism,opening atmosphere and the emphasis of emotions,both the personal hobby of liking plum blossom.Through the description of Ye Xiaoluan's short life,true colours of her before being prettified and immortal are to show as far as possible,and then outline the perfect image of her,which cannot leaving the help of others.The second chapter the immortal features of Ye Xiaoluan explores the causes,process and results.The early death and immortal of talented girls and women are very common at that time,but the immortal of Ye Xiaoluan is unusual in four aspects: singularity has four.To begin with,the fame is pursued as the initial driving force,and then various ways of consulting celestial beings are carried out to glorify her.In addition,the records of meetings about Ye Xiaoluan in her relatives and friends' dreams are in the same way.Finally,the immortal image of Ye Xiaoluan is far away from her eventually.The third chapter the image of Ye Xiaoluan in literary and artistic works explores the evolution process of her image from two aspects.In literary works,the mainly images of Ye Xiaoluan are talented girls and female celestials,as well as a special image of fox fairies who impersonate her.In artistic works,the images of hers are solemn and silent at first,then become more and more lively and cheerful,with increasing modern aesthetic factors in this process.Eventually,"Dai Yu burial flowers" become a freeze-frame of her images.These variations are closely related to the times and aesthetic changes of literature and art.The fourth chapter the historical thoughts of the impressions on literary and artistic works of Ye Xiaoluan rethink this affair,for instance,how she associates to literary and artistic works,what's more,how the images of hers evaluates during the past years,and then explore the causes why the images of Ye Xiaoluan are typical,as well as the common,commercialized and entertaining factors of this process.In a word,the images of Ye Xiaoluan provides relatively abundant creative materials for literal and artistic works with her tragic life.Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties,she even has an affection on the network literature.Though there are huge incidental and external forces,however,as the archetype of many literary and artistic works,especially Lin Daiyu of A Dream of Red Mansions.the evolution of Ye Xiaoluan's images still has the typical significance which cannot be duplicated and extensive research value.