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The Errantry World Of Liaozhaizhiyi

Posted on:2005-09-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Y XinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360125962534Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Errantry spirits have existed for thousands of years. Errantry literature is an important part of China literature, widely loved by readers until nowdays. Liaozhaizhiyi is a great works of Pu Songling, a novelist of Qing Dynasty, who devoted his whole life to the works, whose portion of errantry is of great value of literature, which denotes the highest level of China classical Chinese literature.The study on errantry portions of Liaozhaizhiyi includes the views of famous critics, some portions from errantry literature history and some monographs. Especially nearby years, the study has made great improvement, which refers to the characters of errantry novels, origination of errantry spirits of Pu Songli'ng and inheritance of the errantry subjects in history, etc.The errantry spirits of Liaozhaizhiyi originated from traditional culture of China. The errantry spirits are based on the errantry groups substantially, about whose origination, the professors have different views. There is closely relation between errantry groups and Mo Team earlier than Qin Dynasty. There are both analogy and difference relation between errantry groups and Mo Team earlier than Qin Dynasty. The errantry mainly came from the middle and bottom social classes, which had a great development at the time earlier than Qin Dynasty, disapered slowly and slowly, only left some features in some literature works such as poems and operas and so on, became a kind of spirit finally. Seeing from all, the errantry spirits have three important portions, the first one is the envying for force, the second one is betraying, the third one is heroism. Pu Songling, the writer of Liaozhaizhiyi, had serious errantry spirits, because he was born of the middle and bottom classes and saw the complicated social contradiction.Liaozhaizhiyi have a great many fleaxible errantry features, whose errantry stories are divided into three portions. The first is repayingan obligation and showing deep affections to friends. The second is helping the kind men and killing the evil men and expressing the mercy of the god. The third is that the weaker strikes to defeat the stronger and that the god can defeat the vilence. There are more stories to express the good ability of errantry, which includes the ones who have strange actions and skills and the ones who have martial art and strange profession.Generally seen from the development of errantry novels, Liaozhaizhiyi inherits and develops the traditional errantry novels. Generally speaking, the errantry novels originate from Yandanzi or Yuenushijian of Wuyuechunqiu, which boomed firstly during the time of Tang dynasty. Seen from literature characters, Liaozhaizhiyi almost inherits all the errantry features of past dynasties. All the works are a great heritage for Liaozhaizhiyi. Pu Songling stood at the historic point, absorbed all the nutrition of errantry novels, worked out the fleaxible errantry novels, played an important role in the development of errantry novels. Seen from novels, Liaozhaizhiyi imitates some features of traditional errantry novels. Liaozhaizhiyi also develops errantry features, creating great many monsters of errantry spirits, being more professional in writing, having heavy idealism in errantry features.Pu Songling expressed complicated thoughts of errantry culture when writing the novels, he created great many errantry features who betrays heavily, he expressed the thoughts of Ru Team by creating features who stick to the principles of Ru Team, thinking that errantry can server to hold out the social orders when officials and rules are absent.
Keywords/Search Tags:errantry, errantry novels, Pu Songling, Liaozhaizhiyi
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