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Research Of Mongolian Animal Stories

Posted on:2011-10-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Q CuiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330335473028Subject:Chinese Ethnic Language and Literature
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Mongolian animal stories are a kind of spiritual wealth created by Mongolians in the hunting and nomadic lives of thousands of years. It contains Mongolians' unique experience and wisdom. And it's a kind of art form that "personification" and "socialization" of animals, generalizing the human social life and that vividly displaying the human social life, making the value judgments on the worldly things by means of characteristics of animals. Different periods of animal stories adapt to different stages of development of the human's ability to understanding and adapt to nature. The article taking Mongolian animal stories for study object and based on the method of type motif intends to track back the type,motif and cultural connotations of Mongolian animal stories.The article consists of preface,text (chapter 1-3). conclusion. appendix and bibliography. In the preface, it explains the reasons for select topics,research methods, purpose, value and collection, research survey of Mongolian animal stories. In the article, texts of Mongolian animal stories bearing in the public or internal distribution of books, publications and manuscripts at home and abroad are systematically introduced. And it also analyzes the research status and research note of Mongolian animal stories.The first chapter analyzes the type of Mongolian animal stories. Firstly, by analyzing the type of animal stories appears in AT categories and type index of Chinese folktales, defines the specific methods of the type of Mongolian animal stories. Secondly, the type of Mongolian animal stories is classified into type of AT categories,not type of AT categories and alone version of the story. And it explores the global, national and ethnic nature of the type of Mongolian animal stories.The second chapter explores the motif of Mongolian animal stories. The article summarizes the repeatability, timing and fixed nature of the motif of Mongolian animal stories by analyzing the image motif, plot motif and background motif of Mongolian animal stories.The third chapter reveals the cultural connotation of Mongolian animal stories. The theme of Mongolian animal stories is abundant. The article classifies the Mongolian animal stories into explanatory animal stories,image animal stories and allegorical animal stories. It also concludes its main topics.Through the above analysis, the article makes a conclusion that Mongolian animal stories have nearly 90 global types.more than 20 national types and more than100 ethnic types. The same type animal stories widely spread in Mongolian areas, at the same time it became the carrier of Mongolian culture. The repeatability, timing and fixed nature of Mongolian animal stories,content of motif, quantity change,connection order directly affect on the structure, characteristics and variation of stories. Mongolian animal stories contains heaven worship,god of animal protection worship. Buddhism and economic folklore,etc. These beliefs,ideas and folklore organically combine into one body in the Mongolian animal stories.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mongolian animal stories, type, motif, theme, folklore
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