On ZHANG Zhu-po's Standards of Comment on Characters in Chin Ping Mei: A Case Study of WU Yue-niang and MENG Yu-lou

In ZHANG Zhu-po's comments on Chin Ping Mei, we can find great difference of commenting between WU Yue-niang and MENG Yu-lou. He took WU as a “wicked good person” and poured blames on her; in contrast, he called MENG a “real good person” and believed that she was the projection of the writer herself in the novel. This is because that the commentator merged the feeling of his life and the standards of comment on characters in pursuing certain values into his comment. These include three aspects: moral standards of wealth and sex, traditional words and deeds of rite and virtue, positioning of literati's self-regarding images and second wives.