The Study On The Primary Chronicle

Russian initial chronicle compliation “the Primary Chronicle”(its first edition was compiled at about 1113)is a beginning,and most important link in the history of the building of ancient Rus’ s country,the history of ancient Rus’ s religion and the history of Russian national thoughts in the form of history books,which recorded the building progress of ancient Rus from clannish tribe to Rus country,the religional introductional progress of ancient Rus’ s chriatianization,the communicating progress between ancient Rus and the other races and countries,the history of ancient Rus’ s wars,and the changing progress of ancient Rus’ s national thoughts.In nowadays,“the Primary Chronicle” itself and some religion-cultural phenomena from this work have become important cultural phenomena in the history of Russian nations,religions and thoughts.As a literature-historical work with the type of chronicle,the text of “the Primary Chronicle” contains double narrates of literatural and historical dimensions,which forms the unique narrative characteristic of “the Primary Chronicle”: with the election,codification and arrangement of the different historical events in and abroad the ancient Rus,chroniclers from ancient Rus shows unique view of compliation and history,and the text of “the Primary Chronicle” demonstrates the special textual structure and narrative strategy.The chroniclers from ancient Rus wanted to give holy and reasonable origin that from the Bible to ancient Rus’ s nation,making the time and space in “the Primary Chronicle” with the characteristic of holy time and space from the Bible,in order to make the tangible history of Rus become “the holy history”.Religious narrate is an important part in the textual narrate of “the Primary Chronicle”,which reflects the religious introducting progress of the chriatianization and the beliefing choosing progress from Polytheism to Christianity(according to the narrative content,religious narrate can be divided into Christian narrate and Polytheistic narrate).Almost every nation in the world has its own creation myth,and the research on the national creation myth can read the initial imagination and national observation of this nation to the dimensions of the world,the creation,the God and people.As an important image that accompanying and contrasting to the image of the God,the image of the Devil can be seen not only as the opposite side and reference to interpretate the image of the God,but also as the symbolic of the difficulties and obstructions in the progress of ancient Rus’ s chriatianization to a large extent.The idea of “Holy Rus” was first advanced by the whole Rus’ s metropolitan Hilarion in his work “The word on Law and Grace”(1051),which got more clear and concrete interpretation in the recording text of “the Primary Chronicle”: people from ancient Rus regarded themselves as a holy nation,which was chosen by the God lastly and closed to the God mostly,ancient Rus is the real nation “chosen by the God”.The chroniclers from ancient Rus reflected the opinions of the God and people,life and death,kindness and evil in the time of ancient Rus by a serious of historical events in ancient Rus and abroad,expressed ancient Rus’ s national spirits like heroic and brave spirit,devotion to the God and the seek of the terminal.“The Primary Chronicle” is an initial and original work that demonstrates many Russian national spirits.