Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
"'Dream of the Red Chamber' must be read, and 'Jin Ping Mei' must be unknown." "Jin Ping Mei" is the first of the four "strange books" of the Ming Dynasty, one of the masterpieces of ancient Chinese literature, and an important reference work for the study of the social landscape of the middle and late Ming Dynasty in China. However, for a long time, there has been a general lack of objective understanding and misunderstanding of the artistic achievements of "Jin Ping Mei". In Liu Xinwu's view, "As a Chinese, you must read Dream of the Red Chamber at least once in your life; as a Chinese, you should know that there is a great "Golden Plum Bottle" in the history of Chinese literature. On the afternoon of July 17, writer Liu Xinwu appeared at the scene of the 2021 Jinan Book Fair with his new book "Strange Books and World Phases: Liu Xinwu Talks about the Golden Bottle Plum" published by Tiandi Publishing House, with the theme of "Misread ancient strange books", sharing with on-site readers the unique harvest of his study of "Golden Plum Bottle" and analyzing the unique value of this strange book.
Liu Xinwu
Liu Xinwu collected forty years of research on "Golden Plum Bottle"
Wrote a popular reading book for the public
"Jin Ping Mei" borrows the characters and plots of Wu Song's killing of his sister-in-law and the big trouble in the Lion Building in "Water Margin", so that Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian can come back to life and continue to write a story of Ximen Qing and a series of women. The original work has millions of words, more than 200 characters, dialects from more than 500 years ago, the clues are complex, only describe the plot without explaining the truth, and it is not easy for readers to understand. Liu Xinwu will study the results of "Golden Plum Bottle" for more than 40 years, using in-depth and simple language, with 5 major parts, 82 sections of intensive lectures, in the form of lectures, to comprehensively sort out and explain "Golden Plum Bottle" for readers. The life stories and life courses of 22 main characters such as Ximen Qing, Pan Jinlian, and Li Zhen'er are sorted out for interpretation, involving the storyline, era background, character relationships, writing techniques, etc., combined with history and research detailed analysis, and a comprehensive and objective evaluation of the era characteristics, artistic value, and social impact of "Jin Ping Mei". This not only restores the main plot and story line of "Jin Ping Mei", but also avoids the taboo content in "Jin Ping Mei" that is not suitable for ordinary readers.
Liu Xinwu is a veteran novelist and winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award. The "Dream of the Red Chamber" series he explained on the CCTV Hundred Forums has set off a "red learning fever" throughout the country. However, what people are less familiar with is that Liu Xinwu is also a senior expert who has studied "Golden Plum Bottle" for more than 40 years. In Liu Xinwu's interpretation, Ximen Qing's last words are better written than many literary masterpieces in the world. "Ximen Qing's many economic activities are very worthy of attention."
People who have heard Liu Xinwu talk about "Dream of the Red Chamber" know that his explanatory style is popular and interesting, and this time he talks about "Jin Ping Mei" in detail is also the same style. Different from the review or abridged version of the original work of "Jin Ping Mei" on the market at present, various academic monographs and other research works with difficult and obscure writing, Liu Xinwu's new work of exposition is characterized by cultural popularization - he uses a heads-up perspective to both "talk" and "understand", in-depth and simple, both interesting, story, professional, zero-based Xiaobai can also easily read, can be called a "Jin Ping Mei" original replacement popular reading book for public readers.
Wang Meng praised: "Jin Ping Mei" is a very important book
Liu Xinwu's interpretation is very meaningful
In Liu Xinwu's view, from this book describing the life of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, we can see the real "we", from the family life of the upstart who is also a businessman and an official, to the human world from the court down to the city, the shopping mall officialdom, folk life, marriage concepts, utensils and music, fame and fortune, interpersonal relations, etc. It is written about the food, clothing, shelter, love and hate, greed and anger, and life and death of chaimi and his wife. Later generations once described it in the poem as "a strange book is not unfamiliar, and the Song Dynasty is similar to Zhu Ming". It shows its true value, and the inspiration for the name of Liu Xinwu's new work "Strange Books and World Phases" also originated from this.
Carefully watching Liu Xinwu's explanation of "Golden Plum Bottle", it is like looking in the mirror, there is life: gourmet pastries, fragrant tea and wine, lantern lights, house prices; viewing the world: interpersonal communication, business economics; watching the struggle: how Ximen Qing skillfully maneuvers in the official field and shopping malls, how wives and concubines compete for favors in Ximen Mansion, open and secret struggle; see human nature: greed, shrewdness, warmth, indulgence, pain, etc. Therefore, Liu Xinwu said in the book: "Don't think that 'Jin Ping Mei' is just a book about ordinary family life, it also writes about society; it writes about the inside of the house, it also writes about the outside of the house; it writes about the city well, writes about a lot of human tragedies, and also writes about the shared prosperity of the world. ”
Liu Xinwu's interpretation of "Jin Ping Mei" has been affirmed by the famous writer Wang Meng, "Jin Ping Mei is a very important book, which has great significance in the history of Chinese literature, and now Liu Xinwu can make some explanations, conveying and interpretation of "Jin Ping Mei", which is very meaningful. ”
Huang Lin, distinguished professor of Fudan University and president of the China "Golden Plum Bottle" Research Association, also praised Liu Xinwu's interpretation of "Golden Plum Bottle": "'Golden Bottle Plum' is the pioneering work of ancient Chinese love novels, which can be described as a landmark work in the history of Chinese novels, but "Golden Bottle Plum" is indeed not easy to read and is often misunderstood by people. Therefore, I recommend Liu Xinwu's "Golden Plum Bottle", I believe you can understand the value of this 'first strange book' in his interpretation. ”
Known as "the founding father of Chinese love novels"
There are more than twenty translations of "Golden Plum Bottle" in Eurasia, Latin America and other places
Although many people have many misunderstandings about "Jin Ping Mei", there has always been a high evaluation of "Jin Ping Mei" among writers and scholars, and some people even call it China's "fifth famous book" and "encyclopedia of life in the Ming Dynasty". Writers Zhang Ailing and Ge Fei praised it as a "book of ancient wonders". Qing Dynasty writer Li Yu is also a fan of "Jin Ping Mei", he affirmed that "Jin Ping Mei" is a world love novel, writing about personnel, writing about Tianli, "but all the world's feelings, they will stay in one stroke", not only is it not an obscene book, but also writes the world is cold. Li Yu also compared the "Golden Plum Bottle" with the "History of History", believing that the "Golden Plum Bottle" "came from the Taishi brushwork" and "is purely the magic of shi qian". Lu Xun also valued the "Golden Plum Bottle", and he wrote in the "Outline of the History of Chinese Novels": "The author's situation in the world, Gai Chengji Dongda, whatever is described, or smooth, or tortuous, or carved and full of appearances, or lying and sneering, or writing two sides at one time, making them dwarfed, changing feelings, with the obvious, and at the same time saying the ministry, nothing above." At that time, Lu Xun and the scholars Zheng Zhenduo, Wu Han and others often discussed the "Golden Plum Bottle". Zheng Zhenduo believes that "Jin Ping Mei" is a first-class novel, "its greatness seems to be more than "Water Margin", "Journey to the West" and "Three Kingdoms" are even less comparable to her." The famous sinologist Yuwen Soan once said: "In the world literature of the sixteenth century, there is no novel like "Golden Plum Bottle". Its quality can be compared to Cervantes's Don Quixote or Zishibu's The Tale of Genji, but none of those novels has a modern human touch like Jin Ping Mei. ”
From a worldwide perspective, there are more than 20 translations of "Jin Ping Mei" in Europe, Asia, Latin America and other places, which also shows that the literary value, sociological value and world influence of "Jin Ping Mei" are extraordinary and worth studying. Compared with "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Journey to the West", "Jin Ping Mei" got rid of the framework of only affirming the value of heroes Haojie, emperors and generals, gods and Buddhas, and demons, and was able to put the brushstrokes into the expression of the joys and sorrows, sorrows and joys, and life and death songs and cries of ordinary people who were not recorded in history, which was very remarkable at that time. As we all know, "Jin Ping Mei" has profoundly influenced "Dream of the Red Chamber" in many aspects such as character description, language characteristics, and plot settings.
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