明代社会世态人情的裸露——《金瓶梅》与明代社会新思潮

The Exposure of the Ways of the World and the Human Relationship

明代中叶,随着社会经济经基础的深刻变化,人们的生活方式、精神状态、审美情趣和价值取向也发生了种种变化。产生于明代嘉靖、万历年间的长篇世情小说《金瓶梅》,在对当时社会世态人情的描绘中,已经比较明显地体现了这一时期社会思潮中的某些重要方面:商业活动中社会各阶层对商业利润的趋之若骛,商贾社会地位的提高,以及传统四民关系的转变;两性关系上人们打破了文化传统中那种社会性、伦理性对人的个体心性的禁锢,而表现出对非理性情感和欲求的渴望与追求;服饰上撼动了高压在人性上面等级观念的磐石,表现出一股“去朴从艳”、逾礼越制的社会思潮。

At the middle period of Ming Dynasty, along with the deep variety of social economic basic , the people's life style, mental state, beauty taste and the value orientation have changed too.The long common customs novel Jin Pingmei was written in the period of Jiaqing and Wangli empire ,which depicted the ways of the world and human relationship at that time ,have already embodied some significant respects of the social thought trend obviously. On the business activities, each class scrambled for profits, the social position of businessman rose, and the traditional relationship of four kinds of people transited. On the sexual relation, people broke the durance for individual temperament owing to sociality and ethics in cultural tradition, pursuing the reasonless emotion and desire. On the dress and adornment ,people vibrated the huge rock of the hierachical idea that press on the human nature ,showing the new social thought trend of departing from simplicity and going to luxury and overstepping the rule.