The Research On The Jottings Of Tang Dynasty

The Jottings of Tang Dynasty is a book, which mainly wrote in Tang Dynasty. It comes from some parts of 50 books. It concerns about political events,scholar-officals' activity,vernacluar stroies interspersed with poems, academic research ,and so on .This thesis studies its three aspects: The first one is common psychology among people accounted in this book .The second is the difference and the identity between it and historic books about Tang Dynasty. Here the sameness is studied too. The third is its narrative characters .Generally speaking, the scholar-officials in Tang Dynasty were confident, filled with passion. Since the civil war in AD755, people had became sadder and more rational than before, but they still believed in the royal family and devoted themselves to rebuilding the empire. After the death of Li Chen (the eighteenth emperor), one of the best emperors in Tang Dynasty, the worse scholar-officials plight were, the more depressed they were.Comparing it with historic books a.bout Tang Dynasty, we can point out the sameness are: narrate stories in chronological sequence; when, where, who, what, all are clear, ture and trustworthy some author of these 50 books which composed The Jottings of Tang Dynasty took part in compiling The Tang Dynasty's history. The difference are: The Tang Dynasty's history is exact in its word, meanwhile The Jottings of Tang Dynasty is vivid; The Tang Dynasty's history hold more types of writing than it.Its narrative characters are: the third person is mainly used, the first person and the second person seldom appeare;,14% per cent of it are textual research, lacking the narrative quality; the narrators are real people, such as Liu Yuxi, Bai Minzhong; the narrators believed in Coafucianism.