The Study Of Tang Humor Literature

The Chinese culture is characterized by a kind of pleasant culture, as is concluded in the book Ancient Chinese thinking History Comments by Li Zehou. The humor existing in ancient Chinese culture is the embodiment of the character, wisdom, thinking and mentality of Chinese people. The humor of Tang's literature is a typical Chinese pleasant culture, which influenced the whole society and showed the high self-confidence, boosting morale and the active mentality of the people at that time. However, humor itself has comprehensive meaning and it can be expressed in different ways, which brings about difficulties for researchers in further studying the humor of the Tang's literature. Based on the predecessors' experience and research achievements, the paper starts its study from the aspects of politics, economics, culture, history and values, and also embodies different humors of literati and civilians.The paper consists of three parts:Part one gives a brief introduction about the origin of humor and the humor idea of Chinese people. From the study of the relative research about the humor of Tang's literature, the part gives the clues of the paper.Part two is the body of the paper. First, this part explains the social background of Tang Dynasty, which produced the prosperous humor culture. Second, the paper analyzes the different humors of literati and civilians of the time. Basically, the humor of literati is divided into three parts: current politics satirizing, social affairs mocking...