Study Of The The Huishang Image In The Novel Of The Ming Dynasty, Then

In the Colloquial Stories of the Ming Dynasty, Huizhou merchants appear frequently as literary images. With their remarkable characteristics, Huizhou merchants differ greatly with the merchants from other regions and become a phenomenon carrying some regional features and connotations of that age. This paper probes into this phenomenon to make a thorough on its values on literature, culture and Hui-studies.Chapter 1 is "The Existence of Huizhou Merchants in The Colloquial Stories otthe Ming Dynasty", mainly illustrating Huizhou merchants' frequent appearances in the Ming Colloquial Stories. The present writer finds out that about 40 articles touch upon Huizhou merchants' activities in 15 colloquial stories such as "Three-yan" , "Two-pai" , "Xingshiyan" and so on. This statistic manifests that the existence of Huizhou merchants in these colloquial stories is definite and notable.Chapter 2 is "Analysis of Huizhou Merchants as Literary Images in The Colloquial Stories of the Ming Dynasty", analyzing the images of Huizhou merchants from literary view. Various kinds of Huizho merchants appear in these colloquial stories with conspicuous and different characteristics of living as Confucian during management, being benevolent, lubricious or miserly.Chapter 3 is " Living State of Huizhou Merchants in The ColloquialStories of the Ming Dynasty" , aiming at a comprehensive analysis on Huizhou merchants' living and managing conditions conveyed by these colloquial stories. This chapter dissects the different relationships between Huizhou merchants and government officials, local people, folks and their relatives to penetrate the ways of the world and the human relationships in the specific times and social conditions.Chapter 4 is "Comparison of Huizhou Merchants Between The Colloquial Stories and Scholar Biographies of the Ming Dynasty ", mainly comparing Huizhou merchants in colloquial stories to those scholar biographies. The colloquial stories are generally fictitious while the latter always are some faithful and veritable records. The images of Huizhou merchants are quite different in those two kinds of writing. The authors' conceptions lay special emphasis on different aspects and their creative intentions vary greatly. The images of Huizhou merchants are more realistic, stereoscopic and round in the colloquial stories.