Tang Dynasty Chang'an - Luoyang "literary Geography And Literary Space

During the Tang Dynasty, the Chang'an-Luoyang region, whose middle axle is the communication line between the two cities, is one of the most prosperous areas both in economy and literature. This paper studies the literary phenomenon and activities, and with several typical districts and spaces, explores how these activities occur and develop. The first chapter, in which Chang'an and Luoyang are considered as a whole geographical space, deals with the formation and operation of capital literature's space. In the first section of this chapter, the street-drum system is studied to demonstrate the mature authoring awareness and the independent literary style of capital literature especially novels. The second part studies the Hua'e Xianghui Buiding and the Qinzheng Wuben Buiding in Xingqing Palace to explain those related literary works and ideas, so as to illuminate the interaction among construction, politics and literature.The fourth chapter is a comprehensive study on Mountain and literature-- Mount. Hua is the centre point. As a special literary space against capital, Mount. Hua is deeply involved in literary activities. The mountain in its broad sense interacts with the capital literature, while in its narrow sense it can be divided into the literature about mountain temples and about the natural mountain. The construction of those independent mountain temples can also be regarded as the production of religious and literary space, which exercises great impact on literature, including supernatural and Taoism literature. Besides, the graves and the migrating of the Yangs in Huayin are also discussed in this chapter.The third chapter picks Guanyi as the subject, focusing on three literarily active spots: Changle Yi, Ba Ling and Jingu Yuan. These three spots all locate by the main arteries, whose busy traffic all lead to literary prosperity, but in different ways due to their different positions and functions: Changle Yi speaks for the new Guanyi writing, literature about Baling is more historically expressed, while the works on Jingu Yuan show more about the transmuting line of literature from the Jin to the Tang Dynasty.The second chapter studies literary works about Huaqing Palace, mainly discussing the political influence on literature during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, and Huaqing Palace as a literary and geographical image in the later texts. The love stories of Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan and their evolvement are carefully analyzed to show the relation between political space and narrative space.The last chapter takes the topic of Chang'an- Luoyang communicating space——"Shou'an-Fuchang" region as an incidence-- to reveal its formation and development, and the influence of this communication to literature. Not only Guanyi literature—such as Shou'an Yi and Sanxiang Yi-is studied in this chapter, but a fictional space, literature about Lianchang Palace for example.