【英文摘要】 In the history of Chinese novel development, Qilu Lantern is a long novel of peculiar values and meanings, which not only indicate that it is the first ancient educational long novel, but also provides an immense picture in diverse angles by the minute and interesting depiction of the life in Qing Dynasty of the 18th century. In comparison with The Red Attic Dream and The Unofficial History of Academic Circles, Qilu Lantern shows a more colorful society of various religious sects and academic schools, and especially a vivid description of the folk and alley custom. To development a new research field, the dissertation will analyze the culture of folk-custom in the Central Region and the cultural meaning in a historical sight including the life etiquette, the religion belief, the women life, the gambling fashion, the local dialects, the aesthetics and the view of value in the context of the culture of folk-custom and cultural anthropology,.The Introduction makes a literature review on the research history and situation of Qilu Lantern in recent 100 years, which divides the research into four periods: the starting, the setting, the climax and the deep development, tells the research methods and the basic clue and explains the concepts of the Central Region, the culture of folk-custom, etc.Chapter Ⅰ illustrates the life etiquette and custom of birthday, marriage and funeral, in which the cultural meanings unveil shown by a person's whole life from birth to death accompanied by the different kinds of ritual activities. By the theory of "passing ritual", this chapter tries to link all the stages of the life etiquette and custom.Chapter Ⅱ discusses the religion belief in the Central Region, which exhibits the Taoism, the Buddhism and the folk religions characterized by the utility, practicability, integrity and opening in the late Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the acceptable attitudes towards them from the people.Based on the culture of taking men's rights as center, Chapter Ⅲ puts a real mirror of the society of men's rights from the view of women's education and ethics and women's life customs. In accordance with the division of class and status or women's identity, vocation or status, the women in the novel are divided into plenty of types. Women's life custom was greatly influenced by men's sex discrimination.Chapter Ⅳ states the gambling fashion in the Central Region. Qilu Lantern represents the top level in depicting gambling in ancient novels, in which gambling
【中文关键词】 《歧路灯》; 中原地域; 民俗文化
【英文关键词】 Qilu Lantern; the Central Region; the culture of folk-custom
