《金瓶梅》被認為是一部通俗小說，世情題材貼近市井小民，但問世之初卻只在少數文人間流傳，且褒贬兩極，差異甚大，蓋因文人恐小說中的淫 穢描寫，披之大眾將有「導欲宣淫」的惡果。本文考察明人的序跋及崇禎本 評點，以窺明人品讀《金瓶梅》的文人視角。明人的序跋指出，須識得《金瓶梅》「窮極歡樂」的寫作手法，才能成為善讀者，而此類人士蓋屬「上智之士」，非〈欣欣子序〉所提及的「下焉者」，因而嘉靖、萬曆年間主張小說 「通乎眾人」的理論並不適用於《金瓶梅》。其次，崇禎本亦從打破大眾神 話色彩開始，和「上智之士」展開對話，深化了明人序跋揭示的此一文人品讀視角。本文研究後因此推論：明人序跋及崇禎本評點均將《金瓶梅》定位 為適合文人閱讀的小說，而非大眾文學，只有具備深刻理解力和反省力的頂端讀者，方能理解這部小說的深意。

Although the contents of “Jin ping mei” is most closed citizen in the Ming Dynasty, so it5s perceived to a popular fiction now, but the early propagation of “Jin ping mei” was spread in a few literati, and the judgments were poles apart, they worried about the obscene writing was a bad spread. In this research, it investigated the Ming literati’s prefaces and postscripts to analysis the reading viewpoint of the Ming literati.The Ming literati’s prefaces and postscripts had a point that must understand the writing way of ‘confining poor to joy’，to be called ‘wise reader’，not “chinchinzi preface” said that ‘a stupid readers’，so the point of ‘citizen reading’ in chia-ching and wan-li of Ming Dynasty is not applicable to explain to the spread of “Jin ping mei” . There is a dialogue with the wise reader in Chongzhen comment of “Jin ping mei”, emphasizing the Ming literati’s reading viewpoint in prefaces and postscripts. “Jin ping mei” was a Ming literati’s fiction, not popular fiction, and just only wise reader could understand the fiction value.