Chin Ping Mei's Body Culture Studying

Body is man's existential basis and physical existence;meanwhile, body is also the object which moldedby society and culture.It is a social and cultural field. The characters of society and culturemay be inscribed on the body and revealed by the body. In history, bodyis always on the gloomy region and its importance is always covered. Bodyis considered as the absolute opposite and the source of sins of the noble,sacred and pure soul. It suffers acerb depreciation, condemnation andcontrol. However, body as the first dubiety of man has its own value andmeaning. It' s not a material which is base, vulgar and dirty or shouldbe extinguished. To the existential extent, exploring body is exploringmen.The body of the essay is consisting of five parts.The first part is the Preface which is mainly to explain the keywordsbody and body culture clear the study subject and narrate the purpose andsignificance of the theme. Body is the physical existence of man, the objectwhich built by society and culture and the body of self. In a word, bodyis a complicated concept which has many aspects. The essay mainly discussesbody at figure aspect and social and cultural aspect. Body culture is theculture about body and related characters such as sensibility and desire.The purpose and significance of the theme is to seethrough people's lifestyle and existential state of the Middle and Late Ming Dynasty throughthe typical secular novel Chin Ping Mei. And to explore the hidden relationbetween body and man's existence.The second part is the first chapter the View of Body of China and Abroadwhich gives a simple combingof the view of body of china and the western.On one hand, offering a thinking angle which is different from Chinesetraditional thinking and as a contrast. On the other hand, offering a simple knowledge system as a potential bolster. Body-spirit argument is a basicand lasting argue focus. In the entanglement with spirit, body sometimesinvisible and sometimes visible in order to earn its own rights.The third part is the second chapter Chin Ping Mei's Writing Styleof Body. The novel has two body writing styles. The first one is the visibleone, that is, natural description, including modifies body with clothingand jewelry and opens the body. Clothing and jewelry is the decorativesymbol of body, reflecting people's status, culture, disposition andemotion. Chin Ping Mei displaying personality and all kinds of social andcultural characters through detailed clothing and jewelry description.Much bold flesh description and sexual description break throughtraditional body writing style, let's body from relation to revelation,from esthetics to realistic, from libidinous imagination in artisticconception to pleasant sensational practice in reality. The second one isinvisible one, that is, cultural writing including overturning thetraditional body image of classical poems and controversy of female body.Chin Ping Mei reduces the plane bel-esprit and beautiful lady's image tosecular solid prodigal and licentious women's image and manifests thecomplication humanities. In the men-dominating culture female body is equalto femalesexual symbol. On one-hand men consider bodies and sexual desireof women's as the source of men's degeneration and ruin. On the otherhand, men have the strong desire of women's beautiful bodies and sex. Theugly women and elder women are hard to enter into men's world if have nomoral covering, they may under the sneered and excluded state.The fourth part is the third chapter the Cultural Analysis of Body inChin Ping Mei. The first sections are analyzing the relation between body,live and death. Body is man's settled place for life, both live and deathare builds on the body. Existence is body's existence firstly. And body'sexistence is related with two important wants——food and sex. In orderto gain food and sex one should depend ononeself body. Beautiful looking,skill, wisdom and so on are all important body capitals. Especially forfemale who live in a men dominating society. Women want to live and enterinto men's world must depend on their own bodies. Body is the acting field. Body can as a tool to survive, but if taking body as a tool absolutely bodycan become a place on where death dwells. If so, man's existence canapproach to zero. Only has natural meaning, and has no moral meaning.The second section is analyzing the relationbetween body, affectionand sex. Firstly the essay analyses the sexual description. Chin Ping Mei'ssexual description, always considered as defects. In fact, we shouldenvisage them. Because some sexual descriptions are. Chin Ping Mei'simportant composing sex is not only push the story's development but alsoan important desire of the main characters in the novel. Then analyzinghow affection and sex unified on a person. Chin Ping Mei is not a worldwithout any affection. Its greatness is that showing profound concern aboutaffection which comes from sex. Chin Ping Mei shows us the complicationof permeation between affection and sex.The fifth part is the Conclusion which summarizing the conclusion. Thebody can be the foundation of men's existence and the survival method,but can also cause the body to be tired under the urge of unlimited desire.To constrain and imprison body and the bodily desire is injury body, butoverdraws body and the bodily desire is not liberation. Only body, sex,affection develop harmoniously can body develops normally and can peopleexist better.