Slightly Analyzes the Image of Cai Bojie in“Pipa”from the Feudal Ethics the Three Cardinal Guides and the Five Constant Virtues
Abstract: “Pipa” that is called “ancestor of the southern opera” is esteemed the best famous work of drama that enlightens filial piety during the YuanDynasty. It narrates a piety story of a common family in the chinese feudal society. In “Pipa” the author Gao Ming changes the cognition of image that the hero Cai Bojie “ is a man abandoning his wife and family”,and molds the image of Cai Bojie into holding “entire loyalty entire piety”, tries hard to give him a right eva luation and publicize his loyality, filial piety and the moral outlook. However, when he acts loyalty and piety completely following and the five constant virtues criterion, his parents die actually because they cannot obtain son's support. That makes him fall into “unfilial” predicament. The behavior of Cai Bojie and his desire of filial piety is contradictorily conflict, in fact it is the contradictory conflict of the ethics themselves , that is to say ,it is the contradictory conflict of “three cardinal guides” and “the five constant virtues”. Through the analysis of Cai Bojie’s image, the article wants to make the people to understand the feudal society ethics three cardinal guides and the five constant virtues, the contradictory conflict feudal society ethics and the public life contradiction as well as the contradictory itself, and opens out the latent causes that leading to the tragedies of hero “to want to show the filial piety but not to be able” moreover to breed “unfilial” .
Key words: Cai Bojie,；three cardinal ethical relationships of the social order and the five constant virtues；“entire loyalty”；“entire piety”
