A Study On Quyou And His Jiandeng New-story

During the time of late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, the naissance of Jian Deng new-story written by Quyou broke the old ghosts and gods pattern which had been following the classical short story's pattern of Six Dynasties since Song and Yuan Dynasty. Jian Deng new-story had described the mysteries by using legend method though it is mainly about ghosts and gods, its artistic expression inherited the Tang Legend tradition and declared the resurgence of classical short story of China.Jian Deng new-story reflects the reality of the world in virtue of the world of ghosts and gods, reflects the social ferment during the time of late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty and the pain had been brought to people, animadverts the forces of evil and sing the niceness. The author expressed his resentfulness and hankering in this book and showed the adept and multiplicity of writing methods. Jian Deng new-story was very popular because everything was found new and fresh in it. Compared with Jian Deng new-story, we can find Jin Ao new-story written by Jin Shixi of North Korea was written under the influence of it.Jian Deng new-story developed and innovated on both thoughts and art, it reflects the time character and was widespread at that time. Its influence is country-wide and spread to Japan. It also brought the classic short story in two dynasties of Ming and Qing to a climax and held an important position of Chinese short story's history.