Chapter seven hundred and eighteen: the world's first strange book
In fact, it is not only these literary critics, but many friends who have studied literature, have noticed the work of Jin Pingmei.
Note that it is not because of Jin Ping Mei, but because this work written by Jin Ping Mei is so valuable for research.
Some literary researchers have already started a blog to write a series of interpretations of Jin Pingmei on the day they were sealed.
"I don't have any opinions on this when I learned that Jin Pingmei was banned by the state today. If we talk about the description of eroticism in Jin Pingmei, there is indeed a reason for banning it. However, if the part of eroticism in Jin Pingmei is abandoned, then Jin Pingmei is still a classic. In my opinion, the eroticism in Jin Pingmei is just a very short part, and he cannot be regarded as a eroticism. If it really needs to be counted, then he should be considered a novel of world love. The world love in this article is a work with family life as the theme. This book not only depicts a series of outstanding characters, but also reflects the political, social and social phenomena of the Song Dynasty at that time. From this point of view, we can know the true meaning of this work."
Works worth studying are good works.
Why are the four great classics famous works? In addition to his good writing, the most important thing is that they deserve the research of many literary authors.
Just like the Romance of the Warring States Period, one of the four great classics in this world, although it is a novel, because it describes the Warring States Period, he can interpret the history of the Warring States Period from another aspect. At the same time, because it describes the various emperors in the Romance of the Warring States Period, through the Romance of the Warring States Period, he can have a more comprehensive understanding of the political environment of the entire Warring States Period at that time.
Therefore, since the Romance of the Warring States Period and its history, it has been interpreted for hundreds of years and countless geniuses, and it can still interpret various meanings.
And now, this piece of Jinping Mei also seems to have such signs.
The author in the article also said: Jin Pingmei describes Ximen Qing's life and family's history of success and decline. With Ximen Qing as the center, it reflects the urban society on the one hand, and the official environment on the other hand, showing a great background of the era, exposing the ugliness and dirty things in the world. On the one hand, Ximen Qing has made friends with the powerful and wealthy economy and bribed political status with bribes. On the other hand, she relies on the political status bought by spending money to be greedy and abuse the law, and does whatever she wants, and finally becomes a bully who gathers money, power and power. Through Ximen Qing's social activities, Jin Pingmei also reflected the reality that the government and the powerful collusion between the court and the market, and the powerful government and the people are in a mess. This is a very ironic work.
In addition, Jin Pingmei also successfully created a person who lives in real society. Whether it is Ximen Qing or Pan Jinlian, they are different from the characters in many works. Of course, they cannot be called good people. In fact, there are a few good people in our society. Therefore, the characters in this novel seem extremely evil, but they are extremely real. Without asking, are there no such people in our reality?
Of course, the interpretation of Jin Pingmei is not just that.
Even some expert scholars have entered the activity of in-depth research on Jin Pingmei.
Their research is no better than the research of some individual literary authors, and their research is a comprehensive and complete system of research.
"Han Jin", a professor from the Chinese Department of Nanxiang University, wrote an interpretation of Jin Pingmei of nearly 20,000 words, and conducted a detailed study of Jin Pingmei from all aspects. The article introduces that the most profound meaning of Jin Pingmei is to be exposed to officials. "Han Jin" said that there is a sentence in Jin Pingmei. Wealth and honor must be obtained by treacherousness, and fame and fortune are all based on Deng Tong's success. "Deng Tong" here is synonymous with money. Various plots in the book can be described as a vivid reflection of this sentence.
In society, when buying and selling official positions, corruption and bribery are extremely serious. Whether you are promoted or transferred, you have to rely on money to manage the matter. For example, Ximen Qing bribed the Grand Tutor of the current dynasty by bribing the dynasty, and he was given the position of a thousand households in charge. At the same time, officials at all levels also used their power to accumulate money and make money, and the methods used were no different from us at the moment. Cai Jing celebrated his birthday and Ximen Qing went to give gifts. When he was walking on the road, he met a group of friends who went to the capital. The scene was so grand that it was like the number of people shopping on the pedestrian street. Ximen Qing asked, where are you going? A group of people said one after another, to celebrate Cai Jing's birthday. He asked Ximen Qing back and asked Ximen Qing what Ximen Qing was going to do. Ximen Qing also replied, "I'm going there too."
Corrupt officials would naturally collude with the rich at that time. Ximen Qing did so many bad things, why didn’t he do anything? Not only was it okay, but he was also promoted step by step. Isn’t that strange? But if you look closely, you will find that this is not surprising. In the case of Miao Qing’s murder of money, the chief judge accepted 100 taels of silver from the main culprit Miao Qing, and the accomplice had no money, and the accomplice was sentenced to death as a murderer. In the end, the principal culprit was given a lighter trial, or even a side-by-side.
This is the use of money.
Of course, if Mr. Fanchen's Jin Ping Mei is just a satirical criticism, then you underestimate Mr. Fanchen too much. In Jin Ping Mei, the novel truly reflects the commercial economy of cities in the late Ming Dynasty through a large number of living and social situations. Why does it mean that the end is not the Song Dynasty? In fact, the story of Jin Ping Mei is about the Song Dynasty, but if you look closely, you will find that the real social situation and humanities in the story are not the Song Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty. As for why Mr. Fanchen wrote this, the author has no way to know it for the time being. However, let's not consider this reason for the time being, and the description of the commercial economy in the late Ming Dynasty is extremely detailed in the novel.
For example, in the book, there are 32 Hualiu Lanes and 72 orchestral buildings in Linqing City, where merchants travel and vehicles travel. In Chapter 92, Ximen Qingzi inherited his father's business and opened a raw medicine shop in front of Qinghe County. Later, his raw medicine shop capital was 5,000 taels of silver; he opened a seal shop, pawned clothes and jewelry, and used antique calligraphy and paintings to play. In Chapter 20, he spent 450 taels of silver to plate the silk thread brought by Huzhou merchant He Guanren, and used the free room on the lively urban Lion Street to open a velvet thread shop. The business was excellent: not only did he distribute velvet thread from other places, but he also hired people to dye silk and process it, and sold dozens of taels of silver a day, which was no problem...
These descriptions of business environment and economics not only truly reproduce the social commercial economy of the Ming Dynasty, but also more powerfully, if you do not have an extremely detailed study of history, you will not be able to write it at all.
In addition, the book also held an extremely critical attitude towards the wives and concubine system in the society at that time...
It is a slew of 20,000 words per interpretation.
However, if you can't understand the above text, it doesn't matter.
Han Jin, a professor at Nanxiang University, wrote a very clear and straightforward evaluation at the end.
Chapter completed!