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Emperor Han Wu's Stories And Cultural Interpretation About Them

Posted on:2011-10-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330332972869Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Emperor Han Wu's stories can be mainly seen in the Historical Records,History of Han Dynasty,Mirror of Universal History. Interpretation of history is an important feature of Chinese literature. Han dynasty, as a powerful and prosperous period of the Chinese history, provides too much room for interpretation and narrative subject for latter generations. Emperor Han Wu naturally becomes the topic latter generations often talk about because of his wisdom and special abilities prior to other emperors in the Han dynasty. Emperor Han Wu's stories have not only become an important theme of the novels and operas, but also an essential sources of stories and images of poetry notes.Emperor Han Wu's Stories have come into the visual field of literature since Han dynasty. During Wei Jin Northern and Southern Dynasties period, Emperor Han Wu's Stories were formed into a unique narrative story system, and which is developed and evolved until now. The process of Emperor Han Wu's stories'development and evolution involves the historical interpretation of the narrator, integrated legend, absorption of myth. Through this trend of the evolution, We can be not only able to find the different narrators'subjective initiative of additions and deletions for Emperor Han Wu's stories, but also able to observe cultural background of some social thought refracted from the evolution of the Emperor Han Wu's stories.Based on hackling literature of Emperor Han Wu's stories, This paper makes an analysis of the law of Emperor Han Wu's stories'evolution and social cultural background refracted by it. The paper consists of five parts:Chapter one carding literature about Emperor Han Wu's Stories.Chapter two is about the evolution of begging immortals and analyzes relevant cultural background in the story of Emperor Han Wu. Immortality of the soul, and affected thought of celestial being is cultural background and theoretical beginning of Emperor Han Wu's begging immortals. The activities of Emperor Han Wu's begging immortals are large-scale, which relates to both the multi-character of Emperor Han Wu and the result of political opinions in the Han Dynasty. During Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, Taoist culture is major cultural background of the stories of Emperor Han Wu's begging immortals. The stories of Emperor Han Wu's begging immortals, being used as a tool of religious propaganda, is full of mystical colors. In Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, The stories of Emperor Han Wu's begging immortals are primarily written by scholars, being a political allegory and the medium of expressing personal feelings. In Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, The stories of Emperor Han Wu's begging immortals show a decreased tendency,mainly cause by the rise of civic culture and results of mundane Taoism.Chapter three analyzes the subject of biography and its cultural background of Emperor Han Wu's stories. According to the theory of visualize, Ya party exotic describes the culture of different races and "otherness". The Classic of Mountains and Rivers and Biography of King Mu are the representatives of the early biography literature. The foreign affairs and political culture in the Han Wu dynasty provides materials and sources of the ideas for Ya party exotic subject. During Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the subject of Ya party exotic literature also relates to the development of natural history, besides affected by the immortal description from Taoism wonderland. In Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, the subject of Ya party exotic separates from Taoism, expressing new ideas of Tang's natural history. In Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, seldom can be found about the literature expression of Ya party exotic in Emperor Han Wu's stories, but some novels with foreign themes, e,g Flowers in the Mirror and so on, still derives some materials from Emperor Han Wu's stories, to be different, the dimensional consciousness of authors and the main idea of works has changed.Chapter four hackles the evolution of the love between Emperor and his concubines and analyzes relative culture background. The subject of love between Emperor and his concubines is affected by the story of supernatural being's love. According to Historical Records, the love between Emperor Han Wu and Chen ajiao, Wei zifu, Lady Li, Lady Gouyi and so on differs, however, embodies the characteristic beyond love, maybe relevant to politics or immortal's necromancers. During Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the love between Emperor and his concubines is full of the colors of immortals'ideas because of the Taoism culture. In Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Emperor Han Wu's stories has a deep influence upon Tang Dynasty Emperor. In the poems of Tang dynasty, Emperor Han Wu's love stories are often used by scholars for exclamation of life experience and sarcasm of politics. In Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, Emperor Han Wu's love stories adapts to the aesthetic demands of the public, having a tendency for popularization and folk creation.Chapter five describes the evolution of Emperor Han Wu'visualize under the royal politics. Emperor Han Wu is a mark figure of the establishment of royal politics in China. Emperor Han Wu, as a symbol of royal politics, leaves the possibility of resolution for latter generations due to Emperor Han Wu's multi-angled ideas of ruling a state. During Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, Emperor Han Wu is described as a lowliness image of begging immortals, reflecting the complex relationship between royal politics and Taoism. In Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, the visualize of Emperor Han Wu has two features:delay the development of a state due to begging immortals and a handsome romantic Emperor, which expresses the relationship between intellectuals and royal politics. In Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the image of Emperor Han Wu has many traits of ordinary people as a result of the product of popular civil culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Emperor Han Wu's stories, begging immortals, Ya party exotic, love between Emperor and his concubines, royal politics
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