Chapter 15 Section 5 Jin Ping Mei

Who is the author of "Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng"? Over the past 300 years, there have been many lawsuits and no conclusion has been reached so far.Researchers provide us with a long list of "authors" in the hope that we will be able to pick out a real author.The more famous people in this list are: Wang Shizhen, Li Liweng, Zhao Nanxing, Li Zhi, Xu Wei, Li Kaixian, Feng Weimin, Shen Defu, Jia Sanjin, Tu Long and others.Some people even suggested that it is not a novel created independently by a writer at all, but a collective creation of generational accumulation like that.At present, the discussion about the author is far from over, and the confrontation of various opinions is in a state of stalemate and stalemate.Ordinary people always look at the results of researchers' racking their brains with half-belief.They are unwilling to fall completely at the feet of rational analysis.The conclusions drawn by rational analysis cannot always make them give up.Indirect materials and roundabout textual research, even though more wisdom and blood and sweat may be condensed in it, it is difficult for them to be convinced.There are several different versions of the age of the book.Some say it was between the 10th and 30th year of Wanli, some said it was between the 40th year of Jiajing and the 11th year of Wanli, and some said it was between the second year of Longqing and the 34th year of Wanli.

Ximen Qing is the central figure.The whole book takes the rise and fall of the Ximenqing family as its clues.Ximen Qing is a philistine with multiple identities.He was born in a poor family, opened a herbal medicine shop, lent money and paid interest, took up lawsuits, and later became an official.The novel deeply exposes the social reality in the middle and late Ming Dynasty through such a character who is a businessman, usurer, bully, bureaucrat, and prostitute, through his fortune, doing evil, and indulging in his death.Ximen Qing's original social status was not high, but relying on his own financial resources and skills, he colluded with the government, found backers, and established extensive social connections.Several political turmoil did not shake his position.He poisoned Wuhan University, but he can still get away with it.He accepted bribes and let go of Miao Qing who murdered him for money, but he was also safe and sound.He brazenly said to his wife Wu Yueniang: "We heard that the Buddha in the West Paradise only wanted gold to pave the ground, and the ten halls of the underworld also needed some grievances. All we need to do is to do good deeds and rape Chang'e." , raped the Weaver Girl, kidnapped Xu Feiqiong, and stole the daughter of the Queen Mother of the West, but I will not lose my wealth." (Fifty-seven chapters) Ximen Qing spent wantonly and enjoyed himself wantonly in a vulgar way of nouveau riche, Finally, he died suddenly because of excessive lust.

From an artistic point of view, the most brilliantly described character in the novel is Pan Jinlian.The essential characteristics of Pan Jinlian's character are the same as Ximen Qing's, and she is also a philistine.Where the benefit lies, do everything.However, the appearance of Pan Jinlian's charismatic nature is different from that of Ximen Qing.Ximenqing's philistine nature is scattered in officialdom, shopping malls, and love affairs, while Pan Jinlian's philistine nature is concentrated in the dispute between wives and concubines.Her beautiful appearance, articulate, flexible wrists and her duplicitous, vicious, scheming, tricky, and jealous nature combine to form a rather complex and real character.

Using the rise and fall of Ximenqing's family, write about the society where people's desires are rampant and morality is degraded.Based on this creative intention, the author chose Ximen Qing, Pan Jinlian and Li Ping'er as the central characters, and arranged a series of auxiliary characters of different levels.The three supporting characters are not juxtaposed, Ximen Qing is the center of the center.There are many advantages in choosing Ximen Qing as the center of the book.Ximen Qing is a philistine.The philistine character can best reflect the atmosphere of the era where people are full of lust, sex and wealth.From the layout point of view, Ximen Qing has identities such as a broken-down household, a usurer, a businessman, a traitor in the market, and a bureaucrat.Such complex and multiple identities, such a joint point of a social network, make it possible for the author to summarize as rich a social life as possible through his activities.Ximen Qing's activities naturally brought together people with different identities and status.Ximenqing's pursuit of wine, sex and wealth is the central content of the book, and it is also the main line of the structure. Among them, Ximenqing's pursuit of sex has become the most eye-catching clue. Therefore, the author set up two central characters, Pan Jinlian and Li Ping'er, The dispute between wives and concubines within Ximenqing's family has become a secondary line of the structure.All the clues in the society lead to Ximen Qing; all the clues in the family lead to Pan Jinlian.The author allows Pan Jinlian to give full play to the role of serial roles in the conflict of one wife and five concubines. At the same time, Pan Jinlian's ideological character has also been fully expressed.The main line and the sub-line intersect, and Ximen Qing's pursuit of wine, sex and wealth overlaps with the open and secret struggle of one wife and five concubines.The expansion of the main line is conducive to the portrayal of Ximen Qing, and the expansion of the secondary line is conducive to the portrayal of Pan Jinlian.The author's way is to go hand in hand.The secondary line is a supplement to the main line, and the dispute between wives and concubines is a supplement to polygamy.This is the internal basis for the layout of the main line and the secondary line to go hand in hand and promote each other.The layout is roughly the same.It is not difficult to see that this layout is everywhere connected with the author's understanding of life, characters and society.

What needs to be represented and described are ordinary people in the market.It is true that the description of ordinary people in the market is not the beginning.In this book, a series of successful ordinary market figures have been created.However, these ordinary people in the market are just the foil of the heroes, they only provide an environment and a stage for the activities of the heroes, and provide a background for the vigorous performance of the heroes.The hero's story almost steals the reader's entire attention.In Song and Yuan scripts, ordinary market figures have been described as protagonists in some works.However, we can easily feel the difference between them and .The ordinary market characters in the Song and Yuan scripts are all organized into bizarre stories.What is described is just the ordinary daily life of ordinary people in the market.Here, characters and stories are highly close to life at the same time, saying goodbye to legends.Most ancient Chinese novels are accustomed to drawing materials from myths, historical stories and folklore, but not so accustomed to finding materials from real life at that time.Until the Qing Dynasty, this situation did not fundamentally change.The novels symbolize that our country's classical novels are striving towards strict realism.It is the first full-length novel based on real society and family life in ancient my country.The author concentrates on writing about a family, from its diet and daily life, wedding and funeral etiquette, social interaction, wives and concubines to rivalry, all the way to its overall ups and downs.The characters described are all real people who were active in the society at that time.They are ordinary people, their thinking is not beyond ordinary people; their behavior is not legendary.The author does not weave bizarre plots to attract readers, but digs out its terrible decay and darkness from the common life, exposing its tendency to collapse.Instead of catering to the worldly psychology with a beautiful and full moon ending, it faithfully wrote about the irreversible decline.From the three aspects of non-heroization of characters, modernization of materials, and non-legendaryization of plots, the creation of the novel has great exploration significance.This kind of exploration has far-reaching influence and shows broad prospects for the development of vernacular novels.

Literary endeavors have been very successful.However, at the same time, there are also some obvious defects, such as a large number of obscene descriptions, some unnecessary interspersed sexual descriptions, cumbersome and repetitive scenes, bloated and lengthy descriptions, inconsistent thinking and personality of some characters, and uneven development. Naturally, there are inconsistencies in the plot [Wu Wu] and so on.