Reading Notes
Week5
Part A
- Feng Menglong was know as one of the most versatile writers in the early modern age of China .He was an ardent scholar but also enjoyed small dramas of everyday life. He was a reason that vernacular stories turned into true stories through his higher educated thinking and knowledge of common people.
- Feng Menglong was born to a wealthy family in 1547 that lived in Suzhou which was the center of culture during the Ming Dynasty.
- Feng was a collector jokes and folksong because he was always passionately reading popular literature that common people had in their culture. Giving him material to be able to include both scholarly and common aspects into his work.
- New urban culture during the Ming Dynasty started to produce genres with the topics like sex, money, crimes, and court cases.
- Feng did much reading and editing others writings and then adding his own creations of his own that read like popular stories. Out of 120 stories in his collection 37 he wrote completely by himself. on pg. 498
- Vernacular writing attracted Feng from its freedom of speech and expression in ways he could not do when writing in classical language. He created a hallmark in new vernacular writing also with his love of being an oral storytelling.
- On pg. 498 in the last paragraph also gives a summary of the story we will be reading for the majority of the reading telling us the two main characters and how the plot line of Feng's story telling will play out.
- In starting to read the story I can see immediately the story telling Feng is building up to by giving the lay out of the setting and background of characters to have readers further understand the story he was telling.
- Also I see the versatility showing that he structured the preface of the story easy to read and having readers understand what is going on. Then switching to a more scholarly vocabulary but still everyday talk when his story began with his characters Lui Yuchun and Mei.
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