Late Ming Dynasty Style Study

Style means the individuality represented by the form of literature, such as language, image, structure, and so on. Xiaopin in Late Ming dynasty refers to literary proses after Wanli time. From the style of the prose, we might grasp its essence exactly and expose its historical value.This thesis composes five chapters. The former three chapters expound the stylistic characters of Xiaopin in late Ming dynasty from language, image and structure respectively, and expose its abundant and individual feeling contents. The fourth chapter analyzes comic factors of the prose, which can destroy the rigidity of traditional prose, but counteracted the exposing of individual aesthetic feeling to a degree. The fifth chapter describes the development of Xiaopin in late Ming dynasty, which consisted of inheriting the former prose, developing itself, and the influence from popular literature. In above studies, we hope to expound the stylistic character of Xiaopin in late Ming dynasty roundly.We estimate the stylistic value of Xiaopin in late Ming dynasty from its influence on vernacular Chinese prose in the period of Wusi. The constituents of classical works inherited by modems and making for modernization are the most fiving parts. We don't want to deny the deference between them, since the latter proses represent the important historical advancement, we can estimate the former "works by comparing with them. This comparison also try to explain how Chinese literature had developed from ancient time to modem time. Related with it, the thesis compare Xiaopin in late Ming dynasty with the classical prose hi Tang and Song dynasties, and concludes that the stylistic factors of the former which influenced on vernacular Chinese prose in the period of Wusi. were created by exceeding the traditional works.History is the mirror of reality. Every study of literary history must give reference for present literature, which can help the latter's development. It's also the final destination of this thesis.