明代流氓文化的恶性膨胀与专制政体的关系及其对国民心理的影响(上)——通过明代后期世态小说的内容对社会史的考察

On the surface, the hooligan culture in Chinese traditional society is an anti culture opposite to the statutes of imperial power. But in fact these two things have an inner link of inter growth and complementarity. In Ming Dynasty, the imperial power became extreme autocracy, which supplied a strong power and reason for a fatal expansion of the hooligan culture in nearly all the fields of the society. In Ming Dynasty, the overflow of the hooligan culture and the autocratic politics from above to below worked in concert with each other, which pushed the ethics and the statutes of the society into a devastating calamity. From the history longer than Ming Dynasty, the hooligan culture not only influenced the rise and fall of a dynasty, but also continuously molded cultural values and political ethics of hundreds of millions of Chinese people. This influence from generation to generation has formed a great invisible obstacle which prevents China from going out of the Middle Ages.