This article holds that the story of
Jin Ping Mei starts with “love and respect for elder brothers” and ends with “ filial piety to parents”. The story suggests that the author's main ideological weapon of “satire” is “benevolence” and “heavenly principles”, which is the philosophical
aspect of the novel. The
rise and
fall of the Ximens assumes the course of rise with “Jin”, prosperity with “Ping” and fall with “Mei”, covering and exposing all, which is the social aspect of the novel. The main thread of structural plot uses the rise and fall of the Ximens as the overt line and the glory and disgrace of the evil and treacherous people as the covert line. It purports to say that “prosperity comes with treachery and glory comes with Deng Ton”. To the country, it
brings destruction, to the family it brings ruins, and to the person, it brings an inescapable fate of self-destruction, which is the political aspect of the novel. Thus, Jin Ping Mei is social literature that outwardly presents the
evils of money and sex deals and inwardly it writes about the evils of money and
power, thus ranking as unparalleled “human comedy”. Ximen Qing and Cai Jing are the two leading characters good only for evil crimes, one as a symbol of money and one a symbol of power. The money and power deals between them constitute symbols of evils. The case of “ Jishi Yu's impeachment of Commander Yang” is indeed a guiding link of profound implications.
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