The Sentimentality And Expression In The Sing-song Girls Of Shanghai

The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai written by Han Bangqing is recognized as the"outstanding" one among the narrow and evil novels of the late Qing Dynasty and has been highly praised by many famous writers.Lu Xun,Liu Bannong,Hu Shi and others commented and analyzed it from various aspects such as characters and artistic characteristics,and Zhang Ailing’s translation pushed it to a wider world.In the gap between the ancient times and the modern era,The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai uses"near real" brushwork and takes the prostitutes in the Shili Yangchang fireworks field in Shanghai,which opened in the late Qing Dynasty,as the object,and highly restores the prostitutes of the brothel at that time.The narrative art of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai has always been praised by people,and the most discussed method is the method of interspersed and hidden flashes directly pointed out by the author in the example.At the same time,under the background of modernization of the birth of novels,people prefer to use Western narrative theories to interpret novels.But we can’t ignore that The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai was born in the context of Chinese literary tradition after all,and is in the same line with the lyrical writing that has always been sad.From the development of lyrical poetry,the formation of the poetic characteristics of Tang legends,the spread of highly lyrical novels such as A Dream of Red Mansions,to the romantic novels of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,to the lyrical novels of Yu Dafu.Shen Congwen and others in modern times and "Scars" Literature",sentimental lyricism is the background color of literary works,either implicitly or explicitly in the creation of literati.At present,the research on the lyrical and emotional aspects of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai is relatively scattered,and there is a lack of analysis of its lyrical and emotional nature through the grasp of the entire novel.Therefore,on the basis of a close reading of the text,this thesis makes an in-depth exploration of the sentimental and lyrical features of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai.The first chapter of the dissertation mainly starts with several pairs of characters who have more ink in the novel,and explores the sentimental implication of the characters’ relationship in the process of changing and developing.The second chapter starts with the Yili Garden that appears in the second half of the novel,and selects the natural environment,assembly activities,and literati who left Yili Garden and the related activities of the literati,etc.,to analyze the sentimental meaning brought by Yili Garden.The third chapter focuses on the strengthening of sentimentality in the novel’s writing techniques,from the two aspects of the arrangement of the seasons and the direction of the text and the story,and the penetration of the dream in the novel,to feel the author’s originality in the arrangement of sentimental and lyrical writing.