A Study On The Seasonal Literary Function Of "Jin Ping Mei"

"Jin Ping Mei" is a "special book" in the history of Chinese fiction.It takes the family life of Ximen Qing as the main body of expression,and ordinary people as the the main characters.For the sake of real life,the author arranges the characters and plots in the day-to-day time,as time goes by,showing ordinary people's life experience,joy and sorrow.Festival is an important moment in daily life.Festival description accounts for one third of the book chapters,and different festivals record different encounters in character life.The festival description is a reference to restore people's festival life in Ming Dynasty,and it's very important because it helps the author to create complex characters,construct wonderful episodes,and express novel themes,with outstanding narrative significance.The paper mainly studies the festive description of "Jin Ping Mei" from four aspects:The first chapter analyzes the significance of the life-based narrative in "Jin Ping Mei" in the history of fiction��reflecting the return to everyday life.Festival is an important moment in daily life.Festival description runs through the book.There is an imbalance in the distribution of festivals,it is also reflected in the content of the description.Festival description can reflect that,"sex" is one of the important themes of "Jin Ping Mei".The second chapter explores how the theme of family ups and downs and human infatuation is demonstrated during the Ching Ming Festival and Lantern Festival.The third chapter further explores how the festive narrative context highlights the "personality" and "commonness" of the characters.Festival narratives provide stage for supporting characters in the book.The coincidence of the festival as a birthday implies the fate of the protagonists.The fourth chapter first pointed out several kinds of festival plot patterns in the book.Then the paper analyzes how the author promoted the development of the plot by setting up foreshadowing and accidental events,and how authors achieve similarities between plots through festival descriptions.