The Interpretation Of The Theme Of Jin Ping Mei By Critics Of Ming And Qing Dynasties

Since novel Jin Ping Mei had been presented to the public, it reserved a lot of attention in Ming and Qing dynasties. Scholars comments on this masterpiece in preface, postscript, informal essay and letters. Some of them praised it, but others criticized it. Besides, Jin Ping Mei printed in Chongzhen Era, Zhang Zhupo in Kangxi Era and Wen Long in Guangxu Era criticized and assessed Jin Ping Mei using a special criticism models. Zhang Zhupo's and Wen Long's commentary are especially comprenhensive. The contention about the theme of Jin Ping Mei is an key point in Jin Ping Mei research history, relating to how readers understand this novel.This paper intends to make a careful research on the interpretation of the theme of Jin PingMei in Ming and Qing dynasties, the interpretation of this phase is on three aspects: "social trends and human sympathy", "doctrine of anger-venting", "emphasis of admonitions". The paper is divided into four parts: the first one is to probe into the characteristic of social trends and human sympathy novels and the interpretation of Jin Ping Mei about the "social trends and human sympathy" theme in Ming and Qing dynasty;the second one is to discuss "writing Books because of Indignation" tradition in ancient literary history and probe into the interpretation of Jin Ping Mei about the "doctrine of Anger-venting " theme in Ming and Qing dynasties; the third one is to study the traditional approaches of literary cultivation and the interpretation of Jin Ping Mei about the "emphasis of admonitions" theme in Ming and Qing dynasty. .The last part is to study the relationship of the three aspects of the theme and its influence to current study of Jin Ping Mei.The study of the interpretation of the three aspects of the theme of Jin Ping Mei in Ming and Qing dynasties is under the background of the ancient novel history and the ancient novel the theory history Jin Ping Mei is the novel which start the social trends and human sympathy novels. "Writing Books because of Indignation" tradition and "emphasis of admonitions" are important theory in ancient novel theory. The theme of this masterpiece not only inherit the tradition theory, but also develop it .The reseach on the three aspects of the theme of Jin Ping Mei is helpful to understand the unique characteristic of this masterpiece.