From emperor Jia Jing of Ming Dynasty to the middle of Qing Dynasty is the
period in which
ancient fictionwriting reached a summit and an important transition occurred in ancient fiction
spreading.Many bookshops were set up in this period and they became the main media for fiction spreading.The spreading way changed to public spreading like printing works from personal storytelling,and the spreading channel change to market exchange from book loan and making private copies,book editions were produced variously.The
accepters of the spreading consisted of
different social levels of people who have different level of education, especially the emergence of a large number of special accepters who are good at commentary accelerated the
fictions to spread widely.As to the spreading effect, it includes both spreadingacceptance of literature like extending of a book or changing fiction into opera,and practical acceptance and spreading to abroad.The strong momentum of fiction spreading could not be stopped even by the prohibition or damage of the rulers.All of these show that many new features of story spreading appeared in Ming and Qing Dynasty.
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