"zuo Zhuan" Literary And Thematic Studies

Zuo zhuan is very important Confucian classics and history work, praised highly by later by future generations, also occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese literature. Since Tang and Song, people have begun to study the literary characteristics of Zuo zhuan, until the modern, many relevant research works are produced. Over the past30years, the study of Zuo zhuan literature has made many achievements, especially in some hot issue, for example narrative, figures, war, and diplomatic parlance, research is more in-depth. However, judging from the current overall study situation, the issues discussed by most of the works are in narrow scope, the works that really grasp the text and find the new problems from the text are not too many, carries some of the new study on Zuo zhuan literature, is possible and necessary. For some issues that have been fully studied, for example war and diplomatic parlance, I am not going to do too much analysis. This article mainly selects some problem that is not received sufficient attention to do some studies.The part of introduction mainly analysis the study circumstances of Zuo zhuan literature from Ming Dynasty to modern times, pointed out the omissions and deficiencies, at the same time show the research direction of this article.The first chapter probes into the relations between Zuo zhuan and the Elite cultural of spring and autumn. Zuo zhuan is great work about the spring and autumn era two hundred years history and culture, only seizes the noble political and cultural this point, we can really understand this great work. The first section analysis the characteristics of the spring and autumn period nobility, and describe the changes of the spring and autumn period elite political. The second section simplify comments noble spirit and culture of spring and autumn era. The third section analysis the relations between the literature characteristics of Zuo zhuan and the noble cultural, we think the graceful self-control style of Zuo zhuan, the narratives of aristocracy life, is concerned with the Elite cultural of spring and autumn.The second chapter on the basis of Fenglihua's view"the whole book of Zuo Zhuan divide into four parts ", carries some study on the problem that the different text style of the whole book of Zuo Zhuan. Fenglihua Put forward this view in his work Zuoxiu, he divided the whole book of Zuo Zhuan into spring, summer, autumn, winter four parts, roundly discussed different parts of the text style characteristic. We first comment Fenglihua's view, then on the basis of his view, inquire into the problem that the different text style of the whole book of Zuo Zhuan.The third chapter on the basis of our predecessor's research carries some new study about the narrative art of the Zuo zhuan. We analysis narrative article of Zuo zhuan from the topic, structure and style three aspects, consider the topic of Zuo Zhuan's narrative article has begun to develop into complexity and deep-seated, the structure mainly have symmetry, amalgamating, trifling, narrating and commenting combine four tybes. The style of Zuo Zhuan's narrative article has developed various types, mainly have decorous, frosty, leisurely three kind style.The fourth chapter explores the problem about Zuo Zhuan's the clan narrative. Zuo Zhuan vividly recorded the emergence, change and decay of many spring and autumn era noble clan, it in essence is a kind clan narrative, occupies an important position in the whole book. When narrative the the spring and autumn noble clan's rise and fall, Zuo Zhuan often chooses one or two representative characters of family, with the fate of this one or two characters, to represent the situation of the family in a certain period. When the story of a few generation characters is pieced together, the rise and fall fate of the family is clearly displayed in our eyes. The article narrative the story of noble clan in Zuo Zhuan is very fine and smooth; everywhere reveal the deeply inspected about the worldly wisdom. In addition, we also choose the Lu Guo's Zang clan as a example, to carry a case analysis on spring and autumn era noble clan.The fifth chapter analyzes kinds of style writing and recorded utterance. Zuo Zhuan includes a lot of spring and autumn era historical literature, some are formal style writing,some are recorded utterance that detailed records Noble Robinson's talking. The formal style writing in Zuo Zhuan mainly has assizes, letter, oath of alliance, an official call to arms, and so on, the recorded utterance has commentary, questions and answers and expostulation three types. These style writing and recorded utterance each have each characteristic; have far-reaching influence on later prose far-reaching. Especially the expostulation, occupy a prominent position in the spring and autumn period of political activities, with the passage of time, the characteristic of style also are slowly changed. The sixth chapter discusses the "character anecdotes" in Zuo Zhuan. Zuo Zhuan includes a lot of Noble character's anecdotes, the passages of these anecdotes generally are short, the texts are also concise, and have highly literature value. The first section of this chapter discusses the relation between the "character anecdotes" in Zuo Zhuan and the"Volunteer people novel"in the Six Dynasties, we think the "character anecdotes" is the headstream of "Volunteer people novel". The second section discusses the content and Artistic features about the "character anecdotes" in Zuo Zhuan, we think the content of "character anecdotes" in Zuo Zhuan related to every aspect of spring and autumn noble's life, these "character anecdotes" often intonate, has a kind of natural beauty, has an irreplaceable special value.The seventh chapter mainly analyzes the Ghost story in Zuo Zhuan. Zuo Zhuan includes many Ghost stories, this practice recruited many later generations of Confucian scholars'criticism. If we carefully analyzes the text will find, the Ghost story in Zuo Zhuan, is not mesmerized by the wizard or curious. The writer of the Zuo Zhuan recorded ghost story; the purpose was using the story to teach the people. This view that "using the ghost story to teach the people", produced in a particular time cultural environment, caused the later generations of scholars' some misunderstandings. This chapter discusses the source of this view, and carefully analyzes the specific application of this concept in Zuo Zhuan's Ghost story. The Ghost story in Zuo Zhuan also achieved high art level, mainly have three aspects expression:strong defamiliarization effect, peculiar imagination and fantasy artistic conception.