Novel Theory Of Hu Yinglin

Hu Yinglin,also known as Hu Yuanrui or Shao Shi Shan Ren,was a famous poet,scholar and literary critic of the Ming Dynasty.He had made outstanding achievements in history,philology,poetics,novel theory and opera theory.Hu Yinglin attaches great importance to the study of novel theory,his views on Chinese ancient novels embodied in his book ShaoShiShanFangBiCong.The study of Hu Yinglin's novel theory has gone through a process from shallow to 'deep.The study of Hu Yinglin in the Ming and Qing Dynasties mainly focused on the record of his life deeds and the study of poetic theory,and less concerned about his novel theory;from the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China,Lu Xun began to pay more attention to the academic value of Hu Yinglin's novel history and novel theory;after the founding of the P.R.China,Hu Yinglin's novel theory has been paid more and more attention.This article has carried on the overall combing and the discussion to the Hu Yinglin's novel theory system.By linking Hu Yinglin's novel viewpoint with his own experience,social background and poetics,study Hu Yinglin 's novel theory deeply;combined with his book JiaYiShengYan study Hu Yinglin 's novel ideal;at the same time,study the origin of Hu Yinglin's novels theory and the similarities and differences between he and other ancient scholars,and further excavated the important academic value of Hu Yinglin's novel theory.Hu Yinglin's novel theory connotation is rich,the research content of this article mainly involves the following several aspects.Hu Yinglin divided novels into six categories like Zhiguai,Chuanqi,Zalu,Congtan,Bianding,Zhengui,integrated two aspects content and form to divided novels,so that the classification of the novel is more clear.He broke the tradition of literary ideas in the past does not attach importance to the novel,he changed the turns of the Jiuliu,from Ru,Dao,Yinyang,Fa,Ming,Mo,Zongheng,Za,Nong,Xiaoshuo(novel)to Ru,Za,Bing,Nong,Shu,Yi,Shuo(novel),Dao,Shi,upgrade the novel from tenth to the seventh,affirmed the value of the novel for the community,enhance the independent status of the novel.He was concerned about the function of the novel,stressed that a good novel on social development should play a positive role,such as to help people grow knowledge and to provide information to the classics and history.He criticized the bad novels upside down right and wrong,endangering social stability and development.His discussion on the fictional value of the novel broke through the limitation of fiction and other factors in the development of the novel and promotes the healthy development of the novel.He admitted that fiction can exist in novel,but pointed out that the fiction should follow the principle of 'do good to the world,not harm the world' and 'the fiction should have basis'.He affirmed the fiction that follows such standards like 'do good to the world,not harm the world','the fiction should have basis',writing elegant,not vulgar.In addition,influenced by the development of the economic and literary and the retro literature trend of thought,in the analysis of fiction in the novels,Hu Yinglin praised the fiction before the Tang Dynasty,but also saw the advantages of fiction in the Song and Ming dynasties,this kind of concept value both the tradition ways and the new ways had the same connotation with Hu Yinglin's other literary studies,such as the study of poetry,like the new ones not as good as the old ones or value the change of the poems.With the popularity of Baihua novels,Hu Yinglin began to pay attention to the value of Baihua novels.He affirmed the achievements of ShuiHuZhuan,such as the creation has practical basis,accurate language,the story structure rigorous,character description is accurate.But he also pointed out the shortcomings of ShuiHuZhuan and SanGuoYanYi,such as poor poetic rhyme.On the one hand,Hu Yinglin was influenced by the background of traditional thoughts and the orthodox scholars life experiences,his overall evaluation of Baihua novels is not very good,on the other hand,he saw the value of Baihua novels satisfying people's cultural and recreational needs by the effect of economic prosperity,the emergence of the public class and the rulers of the cultural and recreational control gradually relaxed.His concept of Baihua novels was influenced by the traditional concept of novels,and also began to change to the new concept of novels,reflects people's ideological characteristics during the transition period from classical Chinese novels mainly to the Baihua novels,played a very good bedding role for the later development of Baihua novels.By combing the various views of Hu Yinglin on novels,we can infer the ideal of Hu Yinglin's novel ideal.The ideal novel should help people to increase their knowledge and experience,and supplement the inadequacies of the history,the ideal novel should do good to the world,not do harm to the word,the ideal novel should have realistic basis,the ideal novel should writing elegant,not vulgar,the language of the novel should be simple and natural,the plot should be reasonable,the character description should be accurate.JiaYiShengYan,the collection of short stories by Hu Yinglin is the product of his novel view and novel ideal,which reflects the connotation of his novel theory.In short,Hu Yinglin's novel theory is an innovation in the inheritance of previous thinking,studying his novel theory helps to arrange the development of Chinese traditional novel theory,it is of great significance to further study the development of Chinese ancient novel theory.