Probe Into True Or False Originality To Toward Chapters 53 To 57 In Cihua Edition Of Golden Lotus

Golden Lotus is regarded as one of the four most miraculous novels in Ming Dynasty, partly because there are too many mysteries about the novel , for instance, who is the author, when the novel was finished and whether the novel was written by a single person or by a collective. The paper will deal with one of the questionable but still unresolved issuesthat whether Chapters 53 to 57 in Cihua Edition of Golden Lotus is supplemented by someone else.In the thesis , the author concludes that the five chapters were supplemented in three main aspects. Firstly, compared with the other 95 chapters, the plots and characteristics in these five chapters are filled with many contradictions. Secondly, with view to adapted methods from Cihua Edition of Golden Lotus to Xiuxiang Edition of Golden Lotus, the authdrn aslo concludes that the five chapters are different from the other ninety-five chapters , and that the aim to remedy the flaws in the five chapters of Cihua Edition stands out, which indicates that in the eye of the reviser of the Xiuxiang Edition the five chapters don' t come from the original works. Thirdly, the author still can come to the same conclusion from the angle of the writing of the titles , the way to endeach chapter and the methods to cite other novels , huaben and operas of the five chapters, which are not consistent with the other ninety-five chapters either.