Mai "yi Jian Zhi" Research

This thesis is composed of three parts:introduction, main body and appendix.The introduction contains three parts that are fundamental, judgment and brief introduction on Yi Jian Zhi and its author.The main body contains six chapters. Basic circumstances are analyzed in chapter 1, including time and course of writing every record , brief introduction of versions. Time of every record can be judged by Preaface stored now and Preface quoted by Bin Tui Lu. Sixty years were continuely spent on writing Yi Jian Zhi , which was a long course. Yi Jian Zhi was influenced by life experiences of Hong Mai . The lost status of Yi Jian Zhi is serious. So this thesis intends to elaborate versions of Yi Jian Zhi, based on researches of people ahead and surveys of the the writer of this thesis.The characters of content are analyzed in chapter 2, including three parts: the rich expression of humanity, the pleasure of the story and the appreciation of life story. Yi Jian Zhi was influenced by folk literature of Southern Song. Yi Jian Zhi described the desire of the people, expressed the complicated humanity. Hong Mai paid more attention to the pleasure of stories than the quality of education and the horrible style . Yi Jian Zhi reflected real life and expressed strong smack of everyday life.The artistic style of Yi Jian Zhi is summarized in Chapter 3, including the following four parts: Hong Mai had read a lot of Legendary Novels of Tang Dynasty. He learned writing skills from Tang Legend and promoted the effect of art. Influences which parallel prose in four or six words brought to the artistic style of Yi Jian Zhi ,artistic tendency of stories and delicate artistic style of Yi Jian Zhi,Hong Mai had rich experience of reading and compilating history books. Skills of writing, methods of arranging construction and characteristics of language in history books gave Hong Mai great inspirations. Hong Mai modified legend stories again when they were quoted so that his own artistic style was expressed. Hong Mai put emphasis on details in Yi Jian Zhi so that delicate artistic style was formed.Ideological foundation of Yi Jian Zhi were researched in chapter 4 , including Hong Mai's political ideas,conflicts between him and Zhu Xi, another one in Southern Song, philosophy of life and the people who influenced Hong Mai, with the research of Miscellaneous Notes from the Tolerant Studio, another work of Hong Mai. Hong Mai had some special suggestions about policy on Jin Dynasty. There were some differences in ideas and opinions about writings between Hong Mai and Zhu Xi. Yi Jian Zhi also reflected fatalistic outlook on life and contented life attitude of Hong Mai. Moreover, section 4 analyzes influences which Su Shi, Zhang Jiucheng and Bai Yun brought to Hong Mai.Chapter 5 evaluates the inheritance of former literature and impacts on future generations of Yi Jian Zhi, which includes the following three aspects: the impact of the history and biography of literature on Yi Jian Zhi, the new development of Yi Jian Zhi in the field of ghost novels and Yi Jian Zhi on the impact of future generations. Hong Mai had written and read a lot of history books, which experienced the impact of the creation of Yi Jian Zhi. Yi Jian Zhi was influenced by mythical stories of the former dynasty. However, it had new developments in the performance of content and the way of creation and expressed his own appraise to characters from ghost perspective. The impact of Yi Jian Zhi on future generations is mainly reflected in two aspects of the novel and drama. In addition, the geographical factors of Yi Jian Zhi having impacts on are also concerned. Yi Jian Zhi was influenced by the mythical stories of Northern and Southern Dynasties and had some new changes in content and the methods of writing.Appendix includes three parts: the friendship situation of Hong Mai, Hong Mai's writing case,the stories added from Yi Jian Zhi which were quoted by Stroke the table to second engraved surprised.