On The Ideal Social Conception Of "Mirror Flower"

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a classic novel created by Li Ruzhen in the late Qing Dynasty. Since its birth, it has been attracting people’s attention. Despite the different opinions on it, it is dazzling in the dark period of classical novels. The first half of the novel is the essence in which the author depicted a magic world on his imagination with satire and criticism of the real world to show his ideal society. The oversea journey started from Gentleman Kingdom and ended in Regulus Kingdom. After taking an overview of the whole novel, we can see that the author’s ideal social model was the Datong Society presented by the Confucian. This paper analyses the ideal word of the "Flowers in Mirror" and consists the following five chapters.The first chapter describes the Confusion ideal social pattern, explains the present stage of this topic research status. Because of its complexity, there are many research aspects, such as its women issues, its classification problems and other issues. But the study of its ideal society is still inadequate, so this paper will take this to explore its value. The features of the Confusion ideal society are showed from the classics records which is that everyone can be cared by society, everyone can live and work in peace; the best use of the goods, people do their force. According to the Confucius’thought of "Benevolence" and "righteousness", the Datong society mainly reflects in these two aspects moral and political.The second chapter mainly shows the Datong society of "Flower in Mirror" from two aspects political and moral. The author built his political ideals mainly from the sage kings, the wise ministers and the civilized people. We can see all these are based on the template of Datong society. We analyze the moral ideal of the author form loyalty and filial piety and reach to a conclusion that the author’s ideal society is based on the Confucianism retro goodness. The author showed the peace and prosperity under the governance of sage kings and wise ministers and under the influence of Confucian Ethics.It is discussed in third chapter that the ideal society built in "Flowers in Mirror" beyond the limits of the Datong society. Li Ruzhen did not only copy the Datong society, but developed it. These developments were mainly showed on education, business and women issues. He advocated universal education, the commercial importance, the equality between men and women.In fourth chapter, we discuss the reasons why the author constructs the ideal society, the limitations of the ideal society and the advancement of the author’s thought. Facing with the imminent collapse society, the author satirizes the reality hoping to find out a way to save the society. So in the work, he built the ideal society to try to reform the social abuses. However, the ideal society is divorced from reality and the history development. So it’s only an insubstantial object, not possible. But the progressive in education, business and female can not be ignored which also has some reference to modern society.