| The writing of Ming Dynasty’s legendary novels on the nether world is often based on fantasy plots,unique character images and compact narrative structure to create a beautiful literary conception,which not only attracts readers deeply but also worthy of our discussion and research.This paper took the writing of the Ming Dynasty legendary novels on the nether world as the research object and made discussion in three aspects,namely,the live images in the nether world,the space landscape in the nether world,and relationship between the nether space and the mortal world,it has focused on the analysis on the narrative significance of the presentation and writing of the legendary novels in Ming Dynasty and the nether space.The article is composed by four parts.In the first part,the author focuses on the whole view of the Ming Dynasty legendary novels on the nether world,and classifies the living objects of the nether world in the Ming Dynasty legendary novels.The writing on the nether world in the legendary novels in Ming Dynasty has described vividly on the images of ghosts,the officers in the underworld and monsters.On one side,because the three images are in the nether space,they have brought the strangeness and uniqueness.On the other side,on the basis of carrying on the specialties of the former generation,the three images have had new development,which has fully displayed the exploration of the novels in Ming Dynasty to artistic presentation.The second part focused on the static outline of the Ming Dynasty legendary novels on the nether world,and has discussed the scenery of the nether space in the legendary novels in Ming Dynasty.The nether world analyzed in the chapter is the underground nether world in the traditional meaning.The underground nether world is the place where the ghosts pass through and is also the most basic site of the official worlds in the nether world.Owing to all kinds of reasons in the novels,the people,who enter the hell and walk around in the underground world.By following the switch of the angles of view of the person,who enter the hell,all the scenes he or she has seen can be presented one after another.The representative scenes,like the way to the nether world,the hades,the hell,etc.The third part focused on the dynamic description of the nether world in the Ming Dynasty legendary novels,and has discussed the communications of the nether space and the mortal world in the legendary novels in Ming Dynasty.The nether space the chapter has explored is the coincident space of the nether world and the mortal world.The special space is a nether world to the ghosts and is the mortal world to the mortal.Owing to all kinds of reasons,the ghosts and human are exchanging.By relying on many approaches,it is possible that they both can communicate with each other.It can be said that the reasons and ways of contracts have created a bridge for the nether world and the mortal world and have also provided the possibility for the development of the plots.The narration of the legendary novels in Ming Dynasty put the ghosts and the mortal into the space and has displayed one after one strange plot imagination.The fourth part focused on the artistic analysis of the nether world in the Ming Dynasty legendary novels,and has interpreted the narration features of writing the nether space about the legendary space in Ming Dynasty,The legendary novels and the nether space in Ming Dynasty have deep literary origins.As it is accumulating the rich experience in the former generation,it is innovated and developed.At the same time,it has special narrative mode in writing about the nether space in the legendary novels in Ming Dynasty.The profound narrative functions and profound narrative significance have broken through the traditional narrative function and enlightened the development of later narrative literature. |