Research On "West Lake Part Two"

Ming and Qing Dynasties is an end of China's ancient literature, also is the the period ofmaturity of Chinese literature. In this period, as a genre, novel also gives new vitality. Amongthem, vernacular novels, is a new force suddenly rises, and became the most representative oneamong lots of different kinds of literary styles. The vernacular novels became a bright spot in theresearch of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and now also been made extremely fruitful. Novels suchas Journey to the West, The Golden Lotus, short colloquialism novels such as Stories from aMing Collection, have made great achievements, from the author to the works of literary history,from the macro orientation to text details analysis. In contrast, some vernacular short stories didnot get enough attention, and related research was also very insufficient. Like Stone Nodding,Happy Lovers, Xing Shi Yan and other works, research of those books are basically started inlast few years, and both in quantity and quality are serious shortage. During the late Ming literativernacular short stories album The Two Collections of the West Lake research also face suchawkward situation.The Two Collections of the West Lake as a late Ming vernacular short works, itself has avery distinctive characteristics. First of all, it is spread to the world as a most famous regionalnovels, including rich scenery legend and history of human knowledge of West Lake(Hangzhou). This book made a figure of summary and positioning of Hangzhou's culture andhistory. make outstanding contribution to the regional civilization formation and transmission,become a material in the research and collation of ancient West Lake and Hangzhou regionalculture. Secondly, this novel was written by Zhou Qingyuan, based on his feeling of abjectionliterati's encounter in the late Ming and early Qing, the darkness of the society and the creationof the book, showing the feudal literati political ideal and the reality confrontation andcompromise the complex state of mind; Thirdly, this book involves folk literature, art, historyand other knowledge, reflecting the generations of scholars on both a culture and civilization ofdiachronic inheritance, but also can see the author carries on the personalized transformation andfurther sublimation, contains the unique emotional experience; Lastly, from a literary point ofview, it is the creation of novels in Ming Dynasty from folk to the civilian transfer to a pure text.Despite it is not perfect, the The Two Collections of the West Lake weeks Kiyohara set"untouchable" San Yan" and "Er Pai" this classic text, but as a part of the classical literatureresearch, it is indispensable. Therefore, whether in macroscopic literature history or simply as aplace to work, we all can not be discarded at random.Based on the above reasons, we start our research combined the The Two Collections of theWest Lake preliminary research results. Besides the preface and conclusion, the article is divided into four parts. The first part is simple division to the main text, in which we divide thebook into three categories, namely the feudal ethics subject, Taoism and retribution theme aswell as the marriage subjects, and make a simple sort combine the results of previous studies.The second part is an analysis of the text's theme connotation, including writing aim and theecho between the writer's pogressive ideas. The third part will combine the results of previousstudies on the book reflected the folklore situation?and point out that folklore descriptionincludes material production, social life and the spirit.We will show the mean on folk descriptionin the text. The fourth part is the most important part. We will study the status of the author andhis personalized style which reflects in the text, including strike out a new line for oneselflanguage style, innovative vernacular narrative means and progressive character art and aplurality of artistic description way.