Tao Wu Busy Assessment

The novel Criticism at Taowu has fifty chapters relating from Wei Zhongxian as a hooligan drifting from place to place to an influential eunuch who usurped power and was finally convicted and forced to hang himself. The book was written by an anonymous author. However some scholars during the modern times believe that it was written by the famous historian, Li Qing, in the late Ming Dynasty.The position of the book Criticism at Taowu in the Chinese fiction history should never be overlooked. In his Commentary on History of Chinese Fiction Through the Ages, Wang Zhongqi of late Qing Dynasty commented that "the descriptions of lewdness in The Plum in the Gold Vase, the extravagance in The Dream of the Red Chamber and the meanness in The Scholars and Criticism at Taowu are extremely impressive." However the academic circles have not paid enough attention to the novel for a long period of time. Merely over twenty theses on the book so far have been published; needlessly to say the publication of any monograph on the novel. This is an important reason for me to choose this novel as an object for research.Criticism at Taowu is quite unique in its creation of characters. It does not confine itself to the description of the evil personality of Wei Zhongxian, a notorious eunuch. Rather it focuses on the reason that his character took shape through his inherent psychological mechanism and social environment Influence. This is estimable in a lot of current events novels of the same period. In addition, behave excellently very much in description which want personages quite a few times in the novel, it is the focal point that this text studies too.Narration of Criticism at Taowu structure the one big characteristic of novel too, run through the full text so as to pearl predestination, with red snake being misfortune messy to as frame , is it organize plot to come so as to the structure of the candied haws on a stick type, make the whole novel seem rigorous and careful, orderly. As to the thing that the question of determining the nature of the novel, comment that always there are different views, I have put forward my own view, orientate this novel as the new-type historical novel, historical , supernatural evil spirit , social trends many kinds of elements are merged together, open the new situation of the historical novel.A set of current events novel and current events operas emerge at end of Ming Dynasty, it can be out of competition why Criticism at Taowu, outshine others ? This text castrate the between novel and three current events novel and two current events operas is it carry on comparative research to play with, have enriched the understanding of Criticism at Taowu in another perspective.