Worldly Children: "The Golden Lotus" and Folk Culture

Author: He Lianghao
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: The merchant Ximen Qing is chosen by the author as a typical character, and all the phenomena in the city are reflected through Ximen Qing and the people around him. For this reason, when discussing the customs of the Ming Dynasty in this book, the family of Ximen Qing is often used as an example. Ximen Qing is a merchant in the city, with obvious characteristics of a street-level figure, mainly active outside the court's rituals, interacting with a large number of courtesans, urban ruffians, and merchants from all over the north and south. The customs reflected in Ximen Qing are a type of street-level custom.