自20世纪80年代以来,在众多中国古代小说作品的探讨中,除了《红楼梦》之外,最受国内学人关注、研究成果最多同时也是进步最大、最快的,莫过于《金瓶梅》了,以至于学界提出“金学”之说。只要将大陆地区从建国到八十年代这三十年和此后三十年间《金瓶梅》研究的情况作一个对比,就可以很清楚地看到这一点。此前的三十年间,由于众所周知的原因,《金瓶梅》研究是一个学人们不敢轻易涉足的学术禁 Since the 1980s, most of the works of Chinese ancient novels except “A Dream of Red Mansions” have attracted the attention of domestic scholars. Most of the research results are also the greatest and fastest progress in the study of many ancient Chinese novels, So academics put forward “Golden Learning ” said. As long as the mainland is compared with the study of “Jin Ping Mei” in the three decades from the founding of the People’s Republic until the 1980s and the thirty years afterwards, we can clearly see this point. For the past 30 years, due to its well-known reasons, the study of “Jin Ping Mei” is an academic ban that people can not easily get involved in