Ming Dynasty Nihuaben Novel And Legal Value Orientation

The imitative works of Huaben novels during Ming Dynasty are drawn from the ordinary life, the storyteller’s mouth, and then be compiled for scholars, processing, spread wide, far-reaching, with "san yan er pai" of Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu being the most famoce. The stories talked about criminal law, civil law, marriage law, inheritance law, and procedural law, the largest proportion is murder, accounted for almost2/3more. These stories depict the magistrate judge process, parties to the litigation involved in human psychology and the use of evidence, compared to a true representation of the mid and late Ming Dynasty’s judicial status. especially noteworthy is that legal stories retain abundant legal instruments, such as the court verdict, single, certificates, contracts and so on. Although they are simulated, because the author has judicial experience, so their historical value can not be ignored. More valuable is that the texts reflects the people’s basic view of law to a certain extent.The research of social morality and law value orientation to the imitative works of Huaben novels has got certain achievement. But the author attempts to analysis them from the social economic base in the fission creates corresponding to the change of the social values of this new perspective in late Ming, the focus is on the legal consciousness of the new changes, as well as in commodity economy times, when human eager to match with the values, legal norms of craving, and then from the Nihuaben novels in text this static microcosms to spy on the occasion of the conversion of Ming and Qing Dynasty in the macroscopic world, so as to read the legal value orientation reflected in the imitative works of Huaben novels of Ming Dynasty...