The Stylistic Features And It's Cultural Connotation Of Zuozhuan

Since the mid-20th century, the academical circles have made fruit- ful achievements in probing into the literary value of Zuozhuan , yet showed little concern for style itself. This paper is intended to apply the basic theory of stylistics, combine some features of chinese traditional Cul- ture and probe into the stylistic features of Zuozlzuan and its cultural con- notation from the angle of stylistic evolution and stylistics. This paper is divided into three parts: preface, body and conclusion. First, the preface reviews the research condition of Zuozhuan's literary value of the past five decades. Second ,it defines the concept stylist ics in this paper. Third, it points out the purpose of writing this paper and the critic mode in it. Lastly, it deals with the argumentative premises of this paper. The body is divided into two sections. Section â…  deals with the basic stylistic features of Zuozhuan from three aspccts. First, Zuozhuan has made a breakthrough in the form of annals, roughly following the framework of annals and so appears the bud of biographical form. Taking Choiigcr's exile and Zichan's deeds for ex- amples, it deals with the two basic forms of the embryonic stage of Zuozhuan's biography: biography by one deeds and biography by whole deeds. Finally, it points out the two forms are the earliest biographical embryo in the annalistic literature of pre-Qin dynasty. Second, it deals with the language style of Zuozhuan : profound & graceful, tactful & implicit. Starting from the use of language, it divides .4. the language forms of Zuozhuan into three types: I narrative language used to depict a figure, describe the f)olitical and military scenes and nar- rate anecdotes with the main features of aving simple expression but deep connotation? 11 . character language, including dialogue, mono- logue, diplomacy and advice with the latter two as its leading features. The main features of this kind of language is vivid and gentle, tactful but powerful. 111. annalistic and critic language represented by entleman says? Although not the main language from in Zuoz/zuun, the critic lan- guage is carefully conceived and consistent with other two language forms, streesing expression and wording and so has strong literary and ap- preciative value. Finally, it points out the language of Zuozhuan attaches importance to expression and wording, but never on the surface. Lastly, it tries to explore its whole style features by taking whole an- aesthetic features in Zuoz/zuan into account. This paper holds the style features as magnificent and massive. As far as the structure & scale of the paper are concerned, Zuozhuan is skillfully organized. This part is nar- rated from two ways. I . the elaborate organization of complicated coiit- cnt. within the annalistic framework. II . the dcscriptioti of significant military and diplomatic scenes. As for the readers?1)cr!flaflerlt anaesthetic appreciation, Zuozlzuan deserves to be elegant & replenishing. Seation II deals with the cultural connotation embodied from Zuozhuan stylistic features. First, starting form its developing rules, it writes about the internal causes from the stylistic features of Zuoz/zuan, which are the productive mechanism of Zuozhuan : the infiltration & combination of the original two style forms influenced by the traditional...