The Research Of Plant Description In Qing Dynasty Novel

"The Story of the Stone" is one Of the most characteristic novels on descriptionof the plant in Qing Dynasty, in addition to " Strange Tales from Liaozhai "," flowersin the mirror "," Poppy " etc.. According to the description of the plants in thisnovels， We can make difference between the plants， such as "object plants","invented plants"."object plants" is made up of seven members:"ornamental plants","food plants","Equipment plants","Accessories plants","skincare plants"," economiccrops food crops" and "medicinal plants". Object plants can be used to enjoy, to eat, orcan be used for ornament, can be used to make into the equipments, Even being madeof lots of cosmetics for girls in Daguanyuan.For one part, this kind of plants arewidely used in people’s daily life, for another part, They can also reflect the QingDynasty’s economic information.Besides,"invented plant" is a special kind of Virtual image in the novels, suchas "peri plants","fairy plants","the plants with a religious significance" and "someplants with metaphor and symbol significance"."peri plants": such as "The spirit ofsome beautiful flowers in Liaozhai tales",it ’s the flower fairy charm, Gejin, Xiang Yu,Huang Ying; fairy plants ": for example "Crimson Pearl Flower ",it is a incarnation ofLindaiyu in tai xu Fairyland——a imaginary state by author’s fiction. In addition,"invented plant" also includes some religious plants, such as bodhi tree, talipot palm.with a strong religious color, not produced in the local or the earth. Invented plantbecome a symbol of people’s image in the novels, the symbol that refers to people’sdestiny, or to be a mark of people’s name or byname.In the current and previous academic circles, the research of "a dream of RedMansions" and "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is innumerable, most of investigatorsare focus on the book of the textual research, figures appreciation etc, also have a lookat the explore of the landscape plants and living diet, but it’s too little."a dream ofRed Mansions" and "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" are two most famous book inChina and even in the Literacy International. So by its unique charm, attract a large number of scholars to study it. But from the plant research, few people do combingand an overview of the system of the Qing Dynasty novels. The task of this paper is tothis era of novel plant description of carding, the more typical plant novel such as "adream of Red Mansions","Strange Tales from Liaozhai", including the more famous "flowers in the mirror ", carries on the analysis to the description to the plant. Thecultural meaning of entity description of the plant can be associated to the QingDynasty’s life custom, plant use and aesthetic feeling of life view, for which there arelots of virtual plant, we can see the change of the plant at various times in the culturalsymbols, religious superior significance. Association also whole characters to themain representative plants of color, relationship to further explore the character andpersonality.