In addition, many writers created many new stories in the form of parody, which is called "parody". The constant appearance of various "imitations" has brought vernacular short stories into a new period of prosperity.
Among the numerous vernacular short stories in Ming Dynasty, San Yan by Feng Menglong and Er Pai by Ling Mengchu are the most successful and influential. In particular, "Sanyan" has achieved the most artistic achievements.
High, reached the peak of ancient vernacular short stories.
Sanyan is a collection of short stories, including Yu Shiming Yan, Shi Jing and Xing Yan. Each collection contains 40 short stories, *** 120. Most of them are the Song, Yuan and Ming versions polished by the author and the imitations of the Ming literati, and the works created by the author are few.
"Erpai" refers to the surprise at the first moment and the surprise at the second moment. Surprise at the first moment ***40 volumes and 40 short stories. "Two Moments of Surprise" is also 40 volumes. Different from Sanyan, most of the works of Erpai were created by the author himself.
Feng Menglong, the author of Sanyan, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and was a scholar-bureaucrat family. His brother Meng Gui is good at drawing. His younger brother Meng Xiong, a college student, is good at writing poetry, and the three brothers are also called "Wuxia Sanfeng".
Ling Mengchu and Feng Menglong, the authors of Er Pai, lived in the same era. Ling Mengchu was born in Xing Wu, Zhejiang. 18-year-old complementary food students, their later studies have been unsatisfactory. At the age of 55, he was awarded an excellent tribute to Shanghai. Ling Mengchu wrote many works in his life, among which Er Pai is the most famous.
"Sanyan" has many themes and a wide range of contents. Its contents and themes include reflecting love and marriage, condemning corrupt officials, condemning ingratitude and returning good for evil, and describing the lives of ordinary people and businessmen. In short, everything.
Some love novels in Sanyan dare to break through the barriers of feudal ethics and show new views. It not only opposed the feudal marriage system and marriage concept, but also advocated monogamy and monogamy, and made an extreme condemnation of those who liked the new and hated the old and were too poor to love the rich.
Erpai is the most representative vernacular short story after Sanyan, which focuses on "ancient and modern chores". Most stories have sources, but in the original, they are just old news fragments. Ling Mengchu transformed these materials and wrote a vivid story with the flavor of the times.
Erpai also contains many contents reflecting the theme of love and marriage, and puts forward a new concept of love similar to Sanyan, such as opposing the inequality between men and women in feudal marriage, demanding equality between men and women, and highly praising the indomitable struggle for personal dignity.
Sanyan and Erpai mercilessly exposed and castigated the bullying behavior of local tyrants and evil gentry. At the end of the novel, evil people are often punished and kindness is revealed.
Obviously, this shows people's good wishes to punish evil and promote good.
"Sanyan" and "Erpai" developed directly from the novel scripts of Song and Yuan Dynasties, and artistically retained many features of novel scripts, such as narrative mode, structural system, language application and refinement, and all inherited the fine tradition of novel scripts.
"Sanyan" and "Erpai" have made many new developments in art, such as new progress in characterization. When highlighting characters' personalities, he is good at shaping typical characters in typical environments and designing story conflicts according to their personalities.
At the same time, in the description of details, one stitch and one line are not relaxed, which can be described as nuanced and makes the characters full of flesh and blood. Compared with the script, Sanyan and Erpai are much longer, the theme is more focused, the structure of the works is more rigorous, and the story is more tortuous and fascinating. In terms of language, the language of "Sanyan" and "Erpai" is more popular, fluent and implicit. Move it. Most of the works in Er Pai have been processed, polished and retouched by Ling Mengchu, and become novels with thousands of words, so the original language of Er Pai is very strong.
"Sanyan" and "Erpai" are also good at depicting the complex inner world of characters in detail through psychological description.
There are also many psychological descriptions in the vernacular novels of Song and Yuan Dynasties, but they are more dynamic than static. "Sanyan" and "Erpai" make up for this deficiency, and the characters are more three-dimensional.
In addition to "San Yan" and "Er Pai", there are many vernacular short stories in Ming Dynasty, which have also made breakthroughs, played an important role in the overall prosperity of vernacular short stories in Ming Dynasty, and wrote a brilliant chapter of vernacular short stories.