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【Abstract】To wrote the Lantern Festival in The Golden Lotus, the author relying on folk culture and the literature tradition, make Lantern Festival become a vivid and particular imagery in the novel.
【Key words】The Golden Lotus; the Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival and its related activities appear in The Golden Lotus four times, occupying ten chapters of the whole novel. In the time process of the whole story, the narration of the Lantern Festival locates on the main part of the plot, and it have exceeded other affairs and festival in the aspect of narration density and continuity.
I. Four times describing of the Lantern Festival
“Festivals in China have their origin, and each one has a process from birth, growing and death”, Lantern Festival origin in WeiJin, The Lantern Festival originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. The Golden Lotus has four times to write Lantern Festival. When Li Pinger had a birthday, the author first wrote the Lantern Festival, the meaning of this describing of the Lantern Festival is that Li pinger beddings for herself into the Ximen’s home. The first occurrence of the Lantern Festival is corresponding to the beginning of the main part of the novel. The second describing of the Lantern Festival is that the servant Song Huilian who relied on the favor of Ximen Qing push herself forward. It is a small result of the expansion of Ximen Qing’s lust, and a small climax of the plot of the progress. The third describing of the Lantern Festival is the most detailed extension of the book, and also the most lively plot, it is showing the wealth of the Ximen family. The fourth Lantern Festival, is also the last time to write the Lantern Festival, before the festival Ximen Qing died. Ximen’s death led to the disassembly of the network of the complex relationship, is the sign of the decline of the Ximen’s family, thus, this describing of the Lantern Festival corresponds to the end of the main story of the novel.
II. The space expansion of the Lantern Festival
In the artist world of The Golden Lotus, the Lantern Festival expand the active square. In the family of Ximen Qing, his wives couldn’t go out casually, their active square usually be restricted in their house. In this background, the significant meaning of the Lantern Festival in The Golden Lotus is distinctive. The author create a street and named it the Lion Street. In this novel, this street is one of the busiest street in Qinghe. When Li pinger’s husband Hua Zixu dead, she buy a house in the Lion Street. In the fifth chapter, Liping invite Ximen Qing’s wife eating in her home at Lantern Festival. In the twenty-four chapter, Li pinger married Ximen Qing, They are watch lanterns in the next Lantern Festival. In the forty-two chapter, the Lantern Festival appears again, that night Ximen Qing fucked his mistress that is Wang liuer, it is really a very lascivious image. So by those discuss, we can find that the Lantern Festival play an important role in this novel.
【Key words】The Golden Lotus; the Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival and its related activities appear in The Golden Lotus four times, occupying ten chapters of the whole novel. In the time process of the whole story, the narration of the Lantern Festival locates on the main part of the plot, and it have exceeded other affairs and festival in the aspect of narration density and continuity.
I. Four times describing of the Lantern Festival
“Festivals in China have their origin, and each one has a process from birth, growing and death”, Lantern Festival origin in WeiJin, The Lantern Festival originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. The Golden Lotus has four times to write Lantern Festival. When Li Pinger had a birthday, the author first wrote the Lantern Festival, the meaning of this describing of the Lantern Festival is that Li pinger beddings for herself into the Ximen’s home. The first occurrence of the Lantern Festival is corresponding to the beginning of the main part of the novel. The second describing of the Lantern Festival is that the servant Song Huilian who relied on the favor of Ximen Qing push herself forward. It is a small result of the expansion of Ximen Qing’s lust, and a small climax of the plot of the progress. The third describing of the Lantern Festival is the most detailed extension of the book, and also the most lively plot, it is showing the wealth of the Ximen family. The fourth Lantern Festival, is also the last time to write the Lantern Festival, before the festival Ximen Qing died. Ximen’s death led to the disassembly of the network of the complex relationship, is the sign of the decline of the Ximen’s family, thus, this describing of the Lantern Festival corresponds to the end of the main story of the novel.
II. The space expansion of the Lantern Festival
In the artist world of The Golden Lotus, the Lantern Festival expand the active square. In the family of Ximen Qing, his wives couldn’t go out casually, their active square usually be restricted in their house. In this background, the significant meaning of the Lantern Festival in The Golden Lotus is distinctive. The author create a street and named it the Lion Street. In this novel, this street is one of the busiest street in Qinghe. When Li pinger’s husband Hua Zixu dead, she buy a house in the Lion Street. In the fifth chapter, Liping invite Ximen Qing’s wife eating in her home at Lantern Festival. In the twenty-four chapter, Li pinger married Ximen Qing, They are watch lanterns in the next Lantern Festival. In the forty-two chapter, the Lantern Festival appears again, that night Ximen Qing fucked his mistress that is Wang liuer, it is really a very lascivious image. So by those discuss, we can find that the Lantern Festival play an important role in this novel.