A Study Of The Literary Function Of The Description Of Tears In A Dream Of Red Chamber

A Dream of Red Chamber is considered as the acme of Chinese ancient novel.The traditional culture is seemed as the soil which provides lots of elements for the book,especially tears.Tears can show you the colorful world as well as reflecting the reality of the universe.By means of thinking about the meaning and value of expressing tears in the book,together with conjecturing the artistic expressiveness and emotional rendering,it can bring better description of characters and let people think deeply about the theme of the story.In addition,we can give a further step to exploring the artistic characteristics,ideological connotation and aesthetic implication from A Dream of Red Chamber.This article talks about tears in holistic perspective by describing tear.In Chapter I,we reflect the Karma in traditional Chinese culture by analyzing tears.In order to express the value as well as the absorption of traditional culture and recreation which A Dream of Red Chamber brings to us,we research the cultural root of artistic symbol of tear and illustrate the origin,evolution and development of this artistic symbol in the whole literary history.In Chapter II,we explore external expressions and internal value implications by means of analyzing both content and features of tears,and analyzing the achievement which the artistic symbol obtains in the book.Then in Chapter III,by digging into the text of novel,we analyze the characters which are shaped by tears.Especially,we concentrate on the effect of characters' personality complex relationship between characters by describing tears.In Chapter IV,we focus on the main these of A Dream of Red Chamber.In order to illustrate the literary meaning of A Dream of Red Chamber systematically and comprehensively,we emphasize the theme of the novel by describing tears,and also we deeply discuss the expression of tears to the sad experience of life and the interpretation of family tragic fate.