On Deformation Taoism's Cultural Color Of Immortal's Taoism Novels In The Tang Dynasty

The Immortal's Taoism novel is a special kind of novel in the Tang Dynasty. It receives the deep influence of Taoism's culture and demonstrates strong Taoism's cultural color. So it gets its name. Prosperity of the Immortal's Taoism novel in Tang Dynasty is the result of development of narrative literature. And also is the product of social reality and era culture. While , the rise of Taoism's culture directly leads to the prosperity of the Immortal's Taoism novel in the Tang Dynasty. Immortal's Taoism novel developed in the early period of the Tang Dynasty and got mature in the late period of the Tang Dynasty. A set of works appeared on late stage of the Tang Dynasty. Their artistic value is relatively high and they have displayed the spirit of the times. Immortal's Taoism novels reached the high peak for the first time in the Tang Dynasty since the Wei and Jin Dynasty and the Six Dynasty. The author discusses,from the angle of Taoism culture, the profound Taoism culture in the immortal's Taoism novels in the Tang Dynasty. The main part of the thesis is made up of three sections. Part one : Culture of food and sex in the Immortal's Taoism novels in the Tang Dynasty. The modes of "being unwilling to become immortals"and of "the immortal falling in love with the ordinary person"are the plot modes in the novels. They indicate the existence ideas of having deep love for the life and fearing the death. And they indicate the worldly characteristic of paying attention to life, too. Culture of food and sex is the peculiar characteristic of Taoism, which alleviates misery in the reality life of people in the Tang Dynasty and,Concretely speaking, compensates the scholar' mind when he made a decision between official career and marriage. It is a important supplement for Chinese cultural psychology with its consistent and profound influence on novels of following times. Part two: Taoism's pill-making in the immortal 's Taoism novels in the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty began to cult for the immortal. Meanwhile, there are various stories about pill-making in immortal's Taoism novels. With the transition between exterior pill-making and interior pill-making, many novels on the theme appeared. In the middle and the late period of the Tang Dynasty, the core of the novel seeks for the immortal and shows the idea of loving life. They have unique cultural value. Part three: Taoism's fairyland image in the Immortal's Taoism novels. Tang' legends about the fairyland in Immortal's Taoism novels originated from fairy tales and early Taoism legends. On the basis of fairylands of the Six dynasty period, Tang'legends demonstrate more breath of human world. Tang'fairyland image is expanded. There are fairylands in pillow cave and dreamlike world in ant cave with a wider imagination world. Stories of the fairyland have already been worldly . "Fairyland of human world"with rich and powerful flourishing ——image of Yangzhou, which is focused on expression of ideal life with rich and powerful and the immortal. Because of the prevailing custom of the times, visiting prostitutes and dissolute life and special role of women Taoists in the Tang Dynasty, the love stories in the immortal's cavern have special meaning. The Immortal's Taoism novels of the Tang Dynasty demonstrate era style and features of the integration of fairy and prostitute.