The Research On The Image Of The Doctor In The Novel Of Ming And Qing Dynasty

The doctor image appears very frequently in Chinese ancient literature.Up to ancient myth,down to the Novels in Ming and Qing Dynasty,you can easily find numerous doctor images.And look at Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty,they are as vast as smoke and sea,whose characters are vast and numerous.They constitute a huge group of images.However,the doctor image is an indispensable part of this image group.They master the art of Qihuang or save untold miseries;or being addicted to money or harm people invisibly.Complex and diverse doctor images add an important type of role for image gallery of Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.As for the type of novel appeared,the doctor image appeared in numerous types of Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.We can see their shadows in Historical Romance Novels,Saga Novels,Detective Novels,Ghost Stories and Novels and Wordly Affair Novels.It can be said that doctor image has its own unique value of research in many aspects.But the research of doctor image did not get enough attention in nowaday’s literature field,and the doctor image of the Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty is lack of relevant academic achievements.By teasing doctor images of the Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty,this paper will make readers have a more in-depth understanding of this occupational group doctors and taste the unique aesthetic value,cultural implication and social connotations contained in literature.This paper is divided into three parts: the introduction,the body and the conclusion.The main contents of the introductory part are current status of the study involved medical literature and doctor image problem,research methods and research significance.The body is divided into five chapters.The first chapter talks about the influence of previous doctor images to the doctor images in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.In the second chapter,based on occupation type,doctor images in the novels are divided into seven types: medical official,common doctor,itinerant doctor,witch doctor,doutora,riliqious doctor and legal medical expert.It also analyzes the representatives of each type,which shows the types of doctors are diversified in the society of Ming and Qing Dynasty.The third chapter shows the 3 professional characteristics of doctor image: specific profitability,flexibility and occupation miscibility.These characteristics play a very important role in the developing of novel’s plot story line.The forth chapter analyzes the ways to describe doctor image in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.It tells the readers that writers often take these three measures to describe doctor image: describe the procedure of prectise medicine,tell the effects of the prescriptions and show the moralities of doctors.The materialization and vitality of doctor image realize in the end.The fifth chapter talks about realistic living questions reflected by doctor image of Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.Doctors and the times are connected.It reflects serious social phenonmenon and public concept and reveals the close relation of literature and real life.The conclusion is to organize and summarize the whole paper.It sums up the cultural connotation and the unique literary value contained in the doctor images of the Ming and Qing Novels.These are all marked the characterization art of Novel in the Ming and Qing Dynasty has reached a new height.