The "Magical Mirror" In Chinese Classical Novels

The “magical mirror” is shown frequently in Chinese classical novels, the basicreasons are religion culture and the development of literature.From fairy tales in theancient times and in the Wei Jin Dynasty,to legends in the Tang Dynasty, till themagical novel——“Journey to the West”in the Ming Dynasty and the novel——“Dream of Red Mansions”in the Qing Dynasty, which give “mirror”different meaningsabout culture. At the same time, the appearance of“mirror”adds so much magical colorsto various novels.The first chapter studies the “magical mirror” in the Wei Jin Dynasty.The first partsays the origin and characteristics about mirrors,which are obvious:differentnames,different shapes,different functions and so on. As the first stage,they all havedeep influence on the later novels.The second part says the source of this question,thereare three reasons: the region, the literature and the author.The second chapter studies the “magical mirror” in the Tang Dynasty,it develops theformer stage and affects the later stage,especially for “the ancient mirror”.The first partsays the magical characteristics.The second part takes “the ancient mirror” forexample,which plays an important role in novels about magical mirrors. This partstudies the novel from the content and the form.The third part says the other novels aboutthe theme.The third chapter studies the “magical mirror” in the Song Dynasty,YuanDynasty,Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.There are two styles of novels, one is writtenin classical languages,and the other is written in colloquial languages. The first part isabout the novels written in classical languages. The second part mainly talks about“Journey to the West”in the Ming Dynasty and the novel——“Dream of RedMansions”in the Qing Dynasty. There are magical mirrors in these two novels.Lastly,there are other novels about this theme.In the last chapter,the article shows the important significance and influence about“magical mirror”.The first part talks about the significance about “magical mirror”.There are magical functions,not only in the concent,but also in the form.Besides,“magical mirror” has great effects on later literature.In the second part, it talks about this question.The appearance of“magical mirror” adds so much different colors tovarious novels.Because of the “magical mirror”,the novel becomes more interesting.There are different “magical mirror” shown in different literature as well.