本论文以小说《金瓶梅》主人公西门庆宅的大厅为讨论的出发点,将住宅与居住活动置于其所在的时代、社会和城市背景中,探讨厅在普通住宅日常生活中的意义,并进而从社会交往角度,考察明代中晚期的北方城市中,住宅与城市的关系。论文最后指出厅在社会与家庭、城市与住宅间的中介作用,这也意味着明中晚期的城市住宅是社会活动的基本形式,而非通常所认为的具有私密性与对抗社会压力的场所。 This dissertation takes the hall of Ximen House, the main character of Jin Ping Mei, as the starting point for discussion, and puts residential and residential activities in the era, society and urban background where they live, and discusses the significance of the hall in the daily life of ordinary houses. Social interaction point of view, the middle and late Ming Dynasty northern cities, residential and urban relations. Finally, the paper points out that the agency’s intermediary role between society and family, city and residence also means that the urban residence in the middle and late Ming Dynasty is the basic form of social activity rather than what is generally considered to be privacy and social pressures.