Yushi Mingyan

Name: Yushi Mingyan
Author: Feng Menglong

喻世明言

by Feng Menglong (冯梦龙)

Status: Completed
Length: 342k Words
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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5.8Score

41Chapters

708Reads · all time

Synopsis

"The Ming Yan of the World", also known as "The Ancient and Modern Novels", is the first of the "Three Statements" ("The Ming Yan of the World", "Tong Yan of Warning the World" and "Everlasting Words of Awakening the World") compiled by Feng Menglong, a famous writer and dramatist in the Ming Dynasty. As a milestone in the history of Chinese vernacular short stories, this book brings together wonderful vernacular stories circulated in the market during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and has been carefully organized, polished and re-created by Feng Menglong. The book has a total of forty volumes, each volume tells an independent and complete story. The content is all-encompassing and the subject matter is wide-ranging, which profoundly reflects the various market conditions and the sophistication of people in ancient society. The book not only praises true love and brotherhood, but also lashes out against such ugly behaviors as betrayal, greed and lust; it not only depicts the rush of merchants and the greed of officials, but also shows the wisdom, courage and helplessness of ordinary people. With the purpose of "guiding the foolish and adapting to the vulgar", Feng Menglong aims to use these vivid and tortuous stories to "metaphor" the world to understand reason, alert the world, and promote the traditional ethics of loyalty, filial piety, justice, and karma. The language of "Yu Shi Ming Yan" is popular and fluent, the plot is fascinating, the characters are vivid and full, and the artistic achievement is extremely high. It is not only a collection of ancient Chinese vernacular short stories, but also an important window for studying the social style, citizen life and ideological concepts of the Ming Dynasty, and has had a profound impact on later literature. Famous articles such as "Brother Jiang Xing Meets Again in Pearl Shirt" at the beginning of this book are even more popular and have become classics handed down from generation to generation.

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