A Few Questions about the Completion and Reviewers of HuaJianJi
The five volumes of HuaJianJi(The Flowery Scroll)are the representative works of Cantonese rap literature in the late Ming Dynasty,and its style is almost"song novels".The year of its creation is at least after the publication and widespread circulation of The Peony Pavilion.There are two main authors:The first who possesses exceptional talent and skills created the first four volumes,and the latter who is less talented wrote the fifth volume.After that,one or more counterfeiters altered and smeared the work.Zhong Yingxue was one of the reviewers of this book in the early Qing Dynasty.Although his life experi-ence and temperament have not been known for a long time,from his reviews,one can still see his failures in imperial examinations,his bumpy fate of love frustration and his outstanding talent.Inspired by the en-counter of"being altered and neglected"in HuaJianJi,Zhong excavated and refined the"literary mind"and"technique"of the work,thereby revealing its"extremely deep,extremely intricate,extremely ex-traordinary,and extremely wonderful"features buried under the plain words.Zhong's contributions on re-viewing the book have established himself as"the first person to attach importance to Tanci,and the first person to attach importance to Cantonese Opera".
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