Author(s)

Li Yujun ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guizhou Provincial Institute Ethnic Studies, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550004, China

Corresponding Author

Li Yujun

ABSTRACT

Jian Deng Xin Hua is a pioneering work of classical Chinese novels in Ming Dynasty, which plays an important role in the history of Chinese classical novels. Among the stories in Jian Deng Xin Hua, love and marriage stories are the representatives and these stories have the characteristics of typification. These love and marriage stories in Jian Deng Xin Hua can be divided into four types: the happy and pure love stories in the late Yuan Dynasty, such as The Adventures of Wei Pond, the The Lian Fang Tower and Golden Phoenix Hairpin; The tragic love stories, such as The Biography of Aiqing, The Biography of Cuicui and The Qiuxiang Pavilion, all of these stories show the steadfast faithful love during the alternation of Yuan Dynasties and Ming Dynasties; the couple parting love stories,love between the living one and ghost. It reflects the author's sadness of being apart from lovers forever. Such as The Biography of The Woman in Green, Teng Mu's Drunken Journey to the Garden; the point-of-view stories, in other words, stories show the author Qu You’s attitudes about life with love and marriage, such as Peony Lamp, Send Plum. These four types of stories have their own uniqueness and internal relations, which are closely related to Qu you's lyric literature views and his life experience the alternation of Yuan Dynasties and Ming Dynasties.

KEYWORDS

Pioneering work,Ming Dynasty,classical novels

CITE THIS PAPER

Li Yujun. The Types of Love and Marriage Stories in Jian Deng Xin Hua. Art and Performance Letters (2021) 2: 87-91. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2021.21018.

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