| The Story of The Younger Sister Married Instead of Her Older Sisteris a famous piece in the greatest work of Chinese ancient novels,Liaozhaizhiyi.It is also a classic text of the motif of two sisters changing husbands.Using the method of research literature and logical deduction,this research examines where The Story of The Younger Sister Married Instead of Her Older Sisterin Liaozhaizhiyi collects its creative materials and analyzes the cultural phenomena behind it as an atypical433D snake husband story.The story of Ms.Choi’s daughter and other stories with the theme of two sisters changing husbands are not material for this story.Unlike what some folk literature researchers have previously believed,The Story of The Younger Sister Married Instead of Her Older Sisterin Liaozhaizhiyi is not directly related to the typical433D Snake Lang story in folk literature classification methods.The Story of The Younger Sister Married Instead of Her Older Sisterin Liaozhaizhiyi is a unique433D Snake Lang story in Chinese written literature.It shares the same thematic implication and similar cultural psychology with typical433D Snake Husband Story,which is the result of collective unconsciousness.Typical433D Snake Husband Story cannot exist in ancient Chinese written literature.This is because the Chinese nation worshipped the snake,a totem animal,in the primitive society,which led to the snake marriage gradually becoming a taboo topic in ancient novels.From the Tang Dynasty to the mid-Qing Dynasty,the stories about people marrying snakes were basically tragic stories.Second,in the different kinds of marriage stories in Chinese written literature,after breaking away from totem worship,as long as the monster is male,the marriage is basically tragic,and generally the hero hurts the heroine.Therefore,The Story of The Younger Sister Married Instead of Her Older Sisterin Liaozhaizhiyi and the typical433D Snake Husband Story are only stories with the same thematic meaning,and the latter does not have the possibility to enter the creation source of the former,which contains profound cultural reasons.The second chapter analyzes the common implication and difference between this article and the typical433D Snake Husband Story.The third chapter proves that the creation source of The Story of The Younger Sister Married Instead of Her Older Sisterin Liaozhaizhiyi is not a typical433D Snake Husband Story,and the two develop independently,and analyzes the cultural implication behind it. |