A generation of great men said that Jin Ping Mei was the originator of A Dream of Red Mansions. Without Jin Ping Mei, A Dream of Red Mansions could not be written. "
From here we can see how high the evaluation of Jin Ping Mei is.
Because of film and television works, many people have a misunderstanding about Jin Pingmei. I think it's a low-level work with too many pornographic descriptions.
In fact, there are millions of words in Jin Ping Mei, and the erotic part adds up to about 10,000 words. This completely belongs to the normal category of literary description.
Jin Ping Mei is also the first wonderful book in ancient times. Originally, Jin Ping Mei, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Outlaws of the Marsh, The Journey to the West was one of the four classical novels of the Ming Dynasty, but it was later replaced by A Dream of Red Mansions.
Many ways of writing A Dream of Red Mansions are entirely borrowed from Jin Ping Mei. Most importantly, both books are social love novels, and both are social encyclopedic works at that time.
Especially, Li Pinger in Jin Ping Mei is very similar to Qin Keqing in A Dream of Red Mansions. Both of them had an affair with their father-in-law. After Li Pinger's death, the scenery in Ximen Qing was buried, and Ximen Qing House turned from prosperity to decline.
Although Qin Keqing is Jia Rong's daughter-in-law, she is her father-in-law Jia Zhen's lover. After her death, Jia Zhen must give everything she has and give a grand burial. Qin Keqing's funeral also hinted that Ningguo House would turn from prosperity to decline.
"Jin Ping Mei" has such a high popularity, so what did it write? It can be said that the following four parts have been written:
1, a realistic sketch, objectively and correctly describes the mountains and forests of Ming society.
Jin Ping Mei is the first novel that abandons the traditional method of moral criticism and only writes from an objective standpoint. Before that, there were almost no such works.
2. An encyclopedic panorama of social life in Ming Dynasty.
From food, clothing, housing and transportation, to hair decoration, wages, eating practices and so on. , has a detailed description.
Such a panoramic description can only be compared with A Dream of Red Mansions. However, A Dream of Red Mansions is more inclined to the aristocratic class of the society at that time; Jin Pingmei, on the other hand, tends to all aspects of ordinary people in society. Should be more grounded.
3. It tells the rules of being a man and struggling, and the promotion rules of shopping malls, workplaces and officialdom. You can learn as long as you put your heart into it.
Ximen Qing in Jin Ping Mei is basically his struggle history and his family history. He went from a middle-class family with only one pharmacy to the richest man in Qinghe County step by step, which is undoubtedly a successful model.
From Ximen Qing, we can learn many skills in dealing with people. Of course, the premise is that you don't look at it with colored glasses and think you are a lecherous.
From another perspective, Wu Dalang can also inspire us. "Three inches of nails, dead bark", only selling kitchen cakes, but married a seemingly immortal Pan Jinlian, who was killed, and he was the most responsible.
Especially since I can't speak. After he was seriously injured, he said to Pan Jinlian, "You rotten man, if you are good to me, I won't tell Wu Er, otherwise, I will tell my brother everything you have done."
Because of this sentence, he was sent directly to the gate of hell.
Wu Dalang used his tragic death to tell us what kind of wife a man should marry in order to be capable. Don't climb too high, or he may die an ugly death.
4. Literature is of great value. Lan Ling, the author of the whole novel "Jin Ping Mei", laughed and created a prosperous Ximen Mansion for us, which gradually declined. It can be said that the main line of A Dream of Red Mansions is basically the same.
The poems in Jin Ping Mei are also extremely wonderful and have valuable literary value.
There is a saying among pearl players in Wu Dong: those who read Jin Ping Mei are born with compassion, and so are bodhisattvas; He who fears the heart is also a gentleman; Happy people are also villains; All that works are animals.
Jin Pingmei has the intention of persuading the world, and there are four greedy words at the beginning, which is very clear. The four couplets of "Partridge Sky" write wine, color, wealth and gas respectively.
Books are vast, the history is changeable, and they can stand the test of time and the world, which shows that they are a treasure in themselves. Jin Ping Mei is a bright pearl.
Some people say that in this life, if you read Jin Ping Mei and A Dream of Red Mansions thoroughly, you will have the password to crack your life.
As the saying goes, it is useless to read Jin Ping Mei all your life, even if you read thousands of famous books.
Be sure to read Jin Ping Mei several times in this life, so that there will be no regrets in this life.