Er Yue He, And Its Emperors Historical Novel

Er Yuehe is a contemporary "king writer" skillful at the biographical description of three Chinese kings, namely Kangxi,Yongzheng and Qianlong, in the Qing Dynasty. Despite the argumentation on whether the historical novels should be written according to historic events or not, he wins himself . extensive readers both at home and abroad. With newly established record on copies and unique literary artistic creation, he makes a sharp contrast with the lost humanism and the style attempt of "vanguard school" in the commercialeconomy .Though it was at the age of forty that Er Yuehe published his first literary works, which is the inexorable trend. of the popularization of historical novels, he displayed readers his years' of accumulation of knowledge and great efforts in his works. Through analyses on the relation between the works of Er Yuehe and the cultural environment in the discourse, the author of this paper makes literary criticism on Er Yenhe's historical works. Meanwhile, a conception is put forward that Er Yuehe, whose success provides experience for the prosperity of the new literature and finds the way out of the ivory tower , has rectified the direction of the contemporary vanguard literature creation.A writer should be first a thinker. Though only graduating from middle school, Er Yuehe enriches his own creation principle and forms unique historical point of view through years' of extensive reading of Chinese ancient works of history,philosophy and literature. His recognition and reproduction of the trickery in royal life and cabals in management of officials in the Qing Dynasty offers us an approach to treating the prosperity in times of Qianlong and Kangxi. The "encyclopedia of the Chinese official politics" is what Er Yuehe's works is entitled. Furthermore, the image of Kangxi he depicted is deeply beloved by readers and even the image of Yongzheng has greatly influenced the academic direction of the historical research.In this paper the author takes a firm stand in culture criticism since culture is where literature exists. Without doubt the intensity of culture in literature works can affect its taste and vitality in great degree. Er Yuehe's works on kings seems to be a comprehensive carrier of Chinese Culture. On one hand, he displays the rise and fall of feudal times by using his interpretation of Chinese traditional Culture. On the other hand his works can also meet the common interest. With the successfully used modern ways of psychoanalysis in portraying characters, the inner taste of traditional culture and external atmosphere of commercial culture in his works are united into one, and this creates a miracle on culture combination.Popularization is the nature of historical novels. It is the same with Er Yuehe's writing. Under the principle of "reader being God", he makes enlargement of narrative patterns of classic novels. Its open structure, totally different taste appealing to all and, variety of language style both in ancient and modern patterns make it become another miracle of traditional narration.Furthermore, it also displays the primitive function that literature should serve amusement. The combination of artistic description and historic reality in historical novels is also the direction that Er Yuehe tries to follow .He makes great success in dealing with relations, such as truth between history and literature, history and reality.Inevitably, popularization and commercialization bring some negative influence on Er Yuehe's works .We can know this from its seeking for short term success and quick profit, from its simply imitation of the classic novel, Dream of Red Mansion, from its tasteless description of love story and also from its often existing incredible and absurd plot. In this paper the author creatively compares Dream of the Red Mansion with Ee Yuehe's works. And by denying Er Yuehe's description models of love, which means beauties always marry heroes, the author brings some mediocre conception to light and at last draws a conclusion that Er Yuehe's works have epic form an...