Personal profile
Jin Shengtan (1608 April 17— 16 1 August 7th) is famous for his style of writing. Say the original surname is Zhang. After the death of Emperor Chengzu of Ming Dynasty, he changed his name to Ren Rui, who called himself the Master of Lu 'an. Suzhou Wuxian was a famous writer and literary critic in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
He sent Ye Xiaoluan, a talented woman, and wrote a touching chapter, which became a much-told story of Jiangnan literati and one of the materials for Cao Xueqin's conception and creation of A Dream of Red Mansions. Jin Shengtan raised the status of popular literature and put forward the theory of "Six Talented Books", which made novels and operas keep pace with traditional classics and poems. He is regarded as the pioneer of China Vernacular Literature Movement and occupies an important position in the history of China literature.
Jin Shengtan's main achievement lies in literary criticism. He commented on the Water Margin, The West Chamber, Zuo Zhuan and other Tang poems of Du Fu.
Major achievements
Jin Shengtan's main achievement lies in literary criticism. His comments attach great importance to the exposition of ideological content and often use the topic to discuss political affairs. His outlook on society and life is vivid. He rebuked "making an offence and making an insurrection", interpreted the name of Water Margin as "the worst, the worst, different from China" and opposed "serving the country with loyalty"; However, he sympathized with the sufferings of the people's livelihood, hated officials who were good at people and thieves, and realized that there were "Gao Bailian", "Yin Qian's brother" and their foxes under the "One Gao Qiu", which formed a social force that brought disaster to the country and the people. 108 people's "forced entry into Shui Bo" is "disorderly self-improvement", thus affirming the resistance of Liangshan heroes.
He accepted the nihilistic thought of Buddhism and regarded life as a dream, the so-called "dream of heaven and earth" and "dream of all beings"; However, he faced the reality squarely and was diligent in description, thinking that "life and death are rapid, life is impermanent, and wealth is hard to find." If you are good at what I want, how can you live without writing a book? " Advocate Confucian ethics such as "loyalty and forgiveness" and "filial piety"; However, it also exposed the destruction of ethics on human nature, praised the rebellious behavior of Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng, mocked The West Chamber in Winter as an obscene book, and pushed it as a "strange story of heaven and earth".
His artistic opinions in commenting on The Water Margin and The West Chamber are unique, and after Li Zhi and Ye Zhou, he pushed the criticism of novels and operas to a new height. He claimed that storytelling "takes its literary heart directly", "sketches its appearance, extends its truth and reality, and aims to explore the law of creation, which is indeed quite unique in this respect.