The Collapse Of The Family Ethics Of Crisis And The Social Order

The novel Legendary of Waking Marriage is another worldly affairs lengthy work of the 100-chapter edition after Jin Ping Mei, it takes marriages of two lifetimes as the narrative clue, describes a marriage and family story which is characterized by shrew coward, the masculine and feminine elements inverts. The author Xi Zhousheng cause the world to pay attention to the traditional social order back of the family ethics crisis through the survey for family ethics relationship, specially the deep reflection to the contrary behavior of shrew Xue Sujie and masculine Di Xichen, and then inspire people to cultivate the moral character and govern the family, in order to remodel a marriage and family relationship of sage husband and virtuous wife, and happy couples, as well as a traditional social order of stability and order, with simplicity of folk customs.The thesis makes a research of the marriage and family problems reflected in Legendary of Waking Marriage mainly from five aspects. The first chapter is a overall review of the novel, through the contrast with Scholar-Beauty Romance and Erotic novels of the same period, analyze the unique features of this novel in the fiction history of traditional marriage and family stories; at the same time, placing this novel in the cultural background of integration of the state and family, for the further excavation works of social and cultural significance. The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the narration background which metaphors the turbid custom through the flood in the description of the two marriage transition. As well as the fall of public morals, marriage and family order collapse after the flood. The third chapter and the fourth chapter is with Sujie and Xichen as the center, on the base of tracing back of the "Shrew" and "henpecked" phenomenon, discussing the termagancy performance, termagancy reason of Xue Sujie, the henpecked performance, the henpecked reason of Di Xichen in depth, reveals the author’s intention through such a paradox between the sense of marriage family relation narration, awakening people to pay close attention to the traditional feudal society outside the small family. The last chapter concentrated analyses the author Xi Zhousheng’s ideal of marriage and the social order through the research on the marriage and family of the preceding part of the text.