Novel Of The Song Dynasty And Song Dynasty Folk-commerce Activities

The dissertation discusses the relation between private commercial activities and novels in Song Dynasty. Two Song period is one of the peak of the economics history in ancient China, and private commercial and trade achieved great development. Prosperity was reflected in Song novels vividly, which also generate volumes of commercial novels, tavern stories, teahouses stories. It is necessary to study the relation between private trade activities and novels in Song Dynasty now that some characters of commercial activities and real prospect were presented in the novels and typical locations, body, and customs in the trade influence narrative style, culture connotation of classical Chinese and Song novels.The whole dissertation includes six chapters besides introduction and conclusion. The introduction covers research field, discusses objectives and meaning, clears up research history and current situation, and explains research goals, methods, and norms as well. The author makes professional vendors, brokers and self-produce-sellers as an angle, which is the main body in typical places of commercial activities, such as shops, morning and night markets, to describe and reappear real situation in Song novels in first chapter. What discussed in this chapter provides social and historical causes and background for the next Chapter. Narrative style and culture connotation in the commercial novels are elaborated in Chapter two. The author chooses many typical overseas adventures, upstart, and generous businessmen's stories, and analyses main plots, adventure spirit, retribution fate and the trend of emphasis on interests. Tavern and teahouses were more prosperous than other shops as they were typical locations in Song Dynasty. Chapter three and chapter four study region, architectural decoration, business strategy of tavern and teahouses in two Song Dynasties according to Song novels concretely .Chapter five analyses tavern stories and teahouses stories from narratology and typology angles and discusses social scene and cultural tradition in Song Dynasties.Chapter six is about case study for private trade custom in Song Dynasty. Guanpu custom was a popular commercial way in Song Dynasties. The author studies and explains the nature, tools, and operation of the custom. In this chapter, paraphrase, origin and relation to Zhouyi, form, situation of Guigeguayinshu are also disputed, which was very fashionable superstitious activities in trade.The author summarizes the whole content and notes some issues in the last part, including the similarities and differences of plot between tavern stories and teahouses stories, the influence of commercial activities on generation, spreading and development of Song novels.