Characters And Images: The Study Of Dream Of The Red Chamber's Spreading And Accepting

The famous classical literature Dream of the red chamber is one of the most distinguished novels in the history of Chinese literature. It is also one of the most celebrated novels in the history of the world. It was named legend of the stone from the days of Emperor QianLong at Qing dynasty. It was read by some of Cao Xueqin's friends at the beginning, then it was widespread for nearly two and a half hundred years. It covered language, image, performance and integrated arts.From character medium to image medium, different artists from different ages and different specialties used the most popular techniques to express their devotions, understanding and spread to Dream of the red chamber, so as to continue its artistic life.The whole paper is composed of five parts:The first part is preface The thinking of image overflowing which fleetly scanned grotesque and gaudy phenomenon that affected people's culture life for thousands of years. It also pointed out it was the result of western scholars' so called Vision Culture and The World Image Age. In order to study the influence of Chinese classical literature masterpieces from the transition of language center to image center. The paper chose Dream of the red chamber as a case to grope for a journey started from characters to the spreading of image, the accepting of aesthetics and vision culture.