"read The Notes Of" Religious And Cultural Research

"Yue Wei Cao Tang Notes " is one of the most popular fantastic fiction wrote in Classical Chinese during late Qing Dynasty. Author Ji Yun, another name Ji Xiaolan remembered by most Chinese person, was major minister and culture celebrity in that age. "Yue Wei Cao Tang Notes" was written from 1789 to 1798, lasted almost 10 years and it was the only published writing by Ji Yun. This writing is good at explaining philosophic theory in entertaining stories and religions stories, which made it became magnum opus in China culture history.Buddnism and Taosim are the most important content of "Yue Wei Cao Tang Notes" Ji Yun's novel ontology was mainly inherited from ancient Chinese traditional novels, that was, for a long time, people's understanding of novels in themselves were always confused with their function values. He believed that novels should be defined as admonishment, wide range of knowledge, historical records and supplement to history. Besides admonishment, the most important role novels played was the supplement to novels. Ji Yun traveled a lot during his lifetime and his family enjoyed a high level of reputation. With the attitude of supplementing historical record, he recorded a lot of rare treasures, customs and habits in different places, and historical anecdotes, which could not be seen in the novels of the same category. He was opposed to lengthy writing, thinking that novels should be short stories. Based on this, most of stories in "Yue Wei Cao Tang Notes" were limited in one thousand Chinese characters. Lu Xun ever praised his easy manner and brevity shown in his style of writing.Through research, one of Ji Yun's narrative viewpoints was about narrative perspective. Ancient Chinese novels were mostly written in the third person, with a well-informed narrator reminding readers of his existence all the time. He already thought of something in more depth in his narrative technique. He indicated the source at the beginning of each of his stories, showing that he persisted in narration in certain perspectives. In his stories, Ji Yun applied cause-and-effect circular narrative structures many times, which was closely related with traditional Chinese ideology of " All knows perspective". Ji Yun was opposed to fictions, which was a fatal defect in his novel theory. In stubborn pursuit of reality, he ignored the literate characteristics in his novels. Consequently, Ji Yun's novels were honest and serious but a bit devoid of vigor.The stories ridicule bureaucracy, hypocritical phenomena from an original view, and formed its particular style. Another analogical writing is "Ru Lin Wai Shi" made by Wu Jinzi. Ji Yun didn't oppose imperial examination, he just wanted to improve the old system. Wu Jinzi attacked imperial examination a lot in his stories, which makes different between the two outstanding writings."Yue Wei Cao Tang Notes" was composed of many fantastic stories which most likely as "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi". Author did one charter state her study on comparing the two writings, including different opinions, artifice and religions thoughts. This part starts new study field of Classical Chinese fiction.