On Golden Lotus Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival and its related activities appear in"Jin Ping Mei"four times, occupying ten chapters of the whole novel. In the time process of the whole story, the narration of Lantern Festival locates on the main part of the plot , and it have exceeded other affairs and festival in the aspect of narration density and continuity. The author let Lantern Festival's narration to be the rhythm of the story .Another special aspect of Lantern Festival in"Jin Ping Mei"is expanding the space of person's activities, on one hand expanding the outside space, such as residence located in lion street , on the other hand make the ordinary family space get deeply subdivide. With the activity of enjoying the light,walking in the moon and banquet in Lantern Festival, the novel have display the characteristic of prosperous and chaos in Lantern Festival and XiMenqing's family .And a special activity fornication which mixed in other festival activities, brought ethical relations and life power to be out of balance, containing a deep crisis in the merriment of the festival and the excitement of the person.To wrote Lantern Festival in"Jin Ping Mei", the author on one hand relying on folk culture and the literature tradition, on the other hand create some new meaning, make Lantern Festival become a vivid and particular imagery in the novel. The author suggested the destiny of characters and XiMenqing's family by the Lantern Festival imagery, and displayed the inevitability of this destiny.