《金瓶梅》开创了描写家庭生活的先河,这在中国小说史上是有重要意义的,故有其不可磨灭的文学价值。但它毕竟过于淫秽了,其中性爱描写失之过于粗俗,而且大同小异,翻来覆去就是那么一些陈词滥调。夹在里面的“诗云”之类更是落套而又俗不可耐。茅盾曾经批评《金瓶梅》、《肉蒲团》等小说“描写性欲而 ”Jin Ping Mei“ pioneered the description of family life, which is of great significance in the history of Chinese novels, it has its indelible value of the literature. But after all, it is too obscene, of which the description of love is too vulgar, and more or less the same, over and over again is so clichés. Sandwiched inside ”poetic cloud “ and the like is more implacable and vulgar. Mao Dun once criticized ”Jin Ping Mei“, ”Meat Futon“ and other novels, ”Describing the libido