Empirical Problems of Locality of The Golden Lotus
In Linqing,a port city of the canal in the Ming Dynasty,most merchants are from Huizhou.Qinghe in The Golden Lotus isn't the one in Shandong,but refers to the one in Huai'an.Qinghe in The Golden Lotus is mixed with Linqing,a port city of the canal in Shandong.The writing of Huizhou merchants and Qinghe,etc.demonstrates the mobility of the canal culture.If we interpret the relationship between The Golden Lotus and the culture of Beijing—Hangzhou Grand Canal from the dimension of cultural mobility,we can find that the geographic locations and names in the stories of The Golden Lotus can't be confirmed,that the stories don't really happen in Shandong,and that we shouldn't then verify or explore the author's native place through Shandong dialect,especially Linqing dialect.The empirical study of locality in the narrative of The Golden Lotus often neglects the mobility of the canal culture,which leads to no result.The canal's transportation facilitates the mobility of the population,material and culture,etc.,which creates the canal culture,including the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The mobility of the canal culture deconstructs the locality of the empirical study of novels'narrative.
The Golden LotusHuizhou merchantsLinqingQinghethe canal culture
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