"Lucky Dog" Image Analysis In Folk Literature

One story is enlisted to the type of AT930+461,namely the type of “luckydog”,within the folk tale classification system “AT taxonomy”.The story type of“lucky dog”abounds afer two thousand years deadopment.Domestic and foreignscholars have made fruitful achiavements by doing collection and research on story ofsuch type,while it is rare that someone combined culture and its culturalconnotation.So this paper,taking the character of luky dog as the object of ouranalysis,applying cultural connotation and fanction of “lucky dog”story and itsinfluence on the later literature.This paper is divided into five parts:Chapter1is the introduction part,Itelaborated the reason and dignificance of choosing this topic.And it outlined recentsituation,research goals,methas and innovative points of”luck dog”characters.Chaper2classifies the “lucky dog”characers in folk literature.According to thecontene of the story,we can dinide them into4types:”survived”、”thanks to atreasure”、”the man of god help”and”all,s well that ends well”with correspondingillustration.The formation of the “lucky dog”character is discussed in Chapter3.In theprimitive stage.Its formation is limited by the primitive thinking pattern.As time goeson,Taoism、Buddhism had added new contents to the formation of the.“luckydog”.Till nowadays,multicultural development also injected new blddd,Chpter4tells us that“lucky dog”character has rich cultural connotation andunctions.Its basic cuttural connotation contains:figuring a lucky,lucky,goodluck.Meanwhile,the function of social education and compensation catharsis,which isan important reason why the mass favor“lucky dog”for thousand years.Chaper5mainly discusses the profound influence of “lucky dog”character onlater generations, literature. Its main character and story core have provided a richmaterial for polterity literature,and it becomes literati,s favor.We can catch theshadow in large amount of the “lucky dog”in poetry,prose,drama,especially in novel.The conclusion sums up the important status and vital influence of the“luckydog”character in folk literature.The collection of “lucky dog” story,discussion of its formation and development and its close relation with today,s people,s social life is anissue worthy of our in-depth study.