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Jin Ping Mei, written between Qin Long and Wanli in Ming Dynasty, is China's first love story. It borrows the story of Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian in the novel Water Margin to extend the story, which is entirely about the lives of ordinary people.
It depicts in detail the sinful life course of Ximen Qing, the representative of feudal evil forces, who is a trinity of bureaucratic bullies and wealthy businessmen, from his rise to his sudden death, clearly depicts the Song Dynasty, which is actually the "contemporary history" of the Ming Dynasty in which the author lived, and profoundly exposes the dark and decadent political and social reality of the late Ming Dynasty.
Mao Zedong loves reading and discussion. He has evaluated Jin Ping Mei five times.
The first time was at 1956. On February 20th of that year, when listening to the work report of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, Mao Zedong talked with Wan Li and others, saying, "The Water Margin reflects the political situation at that time, and Jin Ping Mei reflects the economic situation at that time. It is the ancestor of A Dream of Red Mansions. "
The second time was at 1957. Mao Zedong fully affirmed the literary value and sociological value of Jin Ping Mei, and personally made the decision to lift the ban on Jin Ping Mei on a small scale throughout the country. Mao Zedong said: "Jin Ping Mei can be used for reference, but the plot of insulting women in the book is not good. The provincial party Committee secretaries can have a look. "
Therefore, after consultation with the publishing department, the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, in the name of "Literature and Ancient Books Publishing Society", re-photocopied 2000 copies of "Jin Ping Mei Hua thorn" by "Beijing Ancient Books Lost Novel Publishing Conference" on June 1933.
These books are distributed to provincial party committee secretaries, deputy secretaries and ministers at the same level. The photocopy of the newly engraved "Jin Ping Mei Hua thorn" contains 2/kloc-0 volumes of two letters, 20 volumes of text and 200 illustrations. All the book buyers are registered and numbered.
The third time was two years later. 1959 to 65438+February to 1960, when Mao Zedong was reading the textbook of Soviet political economy, he compared Jin Ping Mei with the Chronicle of Eastern Zhou Dynasty in a conversation.
He said that the latter only "wrote the complicated and sharp struggle of the superstructure at that time, but the disadvantage was that it did not write the economic foundation at that time", while Jin Ping Mei was more profound. Jin Ping Mei is very detailed in revealing the contradiction between feudal social and economic life and the contradiction between rulers and the oppressed.
The fourth time was at 196 1. Mao Zedong196165438+said at the meeting of the first secretaries in The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and other regions on February 20th: "There are only three novels about social history written by China: A Dream of Red Mansions, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Jin Ping Mei. Have you seen Jin Ping Mei?
I recommend you to have a look. This book is about the real history of the Ming Dynasty. It exposed the contradiction between feudal rule and rule and oppression, and some of them were very careful. Jin Ping Mei is the originator of A Dream of Red Mansions. Without Jin Ping Mei, A Dream of Red Mansions could not be written. A Dream of Red Mansions is a very serious and meticulous history. But the author of Jin Ping Mei has no respect for women. "
The fifth time was at 1962. Mao Zedong also compared Jin Ping Mei with officialdom in his Speech at the Core Group of the Central Working Conference in August.
He said that some novels, such as Officialdom in the Sky, only wrote darkness, which Lu Xun called a condemnation novel. Only the darkness is exposed, and people don't like to watch it. Jin Ping Mei didn't spread, not only because it was obscene, but mainly because it only exposed darkness. Although it is well written, people don't like it. A Dream of Red Mansions was written with a little hope.
Reference: People's Network? Mao Zedong's Five Comments on Jin Ping Mei? 、
Baidu encyclopedia? Jin Ping Mei