“丑之花”废墟上的几星亮色——《金瓶梅》中的正面描写和正面人物

Positive Description and Positive Figures in "Jing-Ping-Mei"

《金瓶梅》虽然描写了一个黑暗龌龊的丑恶社会,但它还能在描写黑暗的同时给作品保持几星亮色。作者一是通过自己的直接插话、二是通过安排命运对邪恶人物的惩罚、三是通过具体的言行树立正面人物形象等手法来传达自己的思想和观念。可以说《金瓶梅》既已打破了古典美学不准写丑的幻想,但还未曾靠近绝望的现代丑学思想。

Although “Jing-Ping-Mei” gives a description of the dark,filthy and frightful society, it keeps some sparks in the works. The author of the works, by means of direct parenthetical remarks, arrangement of fatal punishment for wicked figures and establishing positive images by words and actions,conveys his thought and notion. It can be said that the works of “Jing-Ping-Mei” breaks the illusion of ancient aesthetics of not allowing descriptions of ugliness, but still not getting to the desperate thought of modern learning of ugliness.