The New Study Of A Miscellany Of Western Capital

A Miscellany of Western Capital is a ancient book that records the palace,official garments,the person with literature quality or superb skills,characters with better morality in Han dynasty.The contents couldn’t be seen in the official history such as Shih Chi,The Han History,The Later Han History,which makes it high value in historical documents A Miscellany of Western Capital focus on the choosing of characters,the implication in narration,which makes it high literature value.A Miscellany of Western Capital also has great effects in the later,for example,it is spread in folk that heng Kuang steals the light from neighbor,and poets express their emotions on that zhaojun Wang goes to the aboard because of not bribing the drawer.At the same time,some parts in Novel by yun Yin,the Map of Western Capital,You Yang Essays by chengshi Duan is the same as that is in A Miscellany of Western Capital.Based on the predecessors’ studies,this paper would make use of the materials of A Miscellany of Western Capital to make the further study,and would be divided into seven chapters including introduction and appendix.The introduction presents the predecessors’ study in the authorship,literary feature,the value of historical document,the linguistic and others of A Miscellany of Western Capital.The first chapter discusses the authorship of A Miscellany of Western Capital based on the predecessors’ study.This chapter discusses the possibility that xin Liu writes this book because of his favorable conditions,the relationship between xin Liu and the contents of the first person point view and xiong Yang,and makes further efforts to determine the writing times according to some other Han or Jin history books with the same contents such as the Map of Western Capital.At the same time,This chapter also explores the possibility that the descendants continue to write this book.Thus all of these affirm the conclusion that A Miscellany of Western Capital is possibly written by xin Liu,although it is compiled by the descendants.The second chapter studies the preference of characters choosing and their stories.Compared with the typical characters in the official history books,the part analyzes the new perspectives in choosing characters and their stories,which are focusing on the person with low social status and the trifle of great names in history.The third chapter discusses the new characteristic in narration.This section points out that A Miscellany of Western Capital inherits the narrative tradition of the official history.At the same time,it has the differences from the official history in narrating something trivialized and humorous.This is due to the change of the institution of historiographers.The forth chapter concentrates on natural science in A Miscellany of Western Capital.By comparing to the Classic of Mountains and Rivers,Encyclopedic Narration,the Etiquette System in Han Dynasty,the Annotation of Things in Ancient and Modern,this section discusses the natural science of recording plants,animals and artifacts in A Miscellany of Western Capital.And this chapter finds that this characteristic has the relationship with the general mood of society and scholar’s hobbies.The last chapter tries to resolve the dispute in literary forms of A Miscellany of Western Capital based on scholar’s disagreement in ancient or modern times.Then,in view of the difference between historical biography and Chinese classical novels,the text characteristics and writing process,this chapter depicts the transition and its evaluation of A Miscellany of Western Capital from historical biography to Chinese classical novels.Thus the chapter classifies its literary forms objectively and reasonably.The appendix studies sixteen materials about A Miscellany of Western Capital critically,which is helpful to figure out the authorship,the relationship between this book and others.