The Study Of Yanzi Stories

Yanzi is a famous historical character of the Spring and Autumn period, whose anecdotes were recorded fragmentarily in a lot of books in the period of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, such as ZuoZhuan, Liji, Mencius, and so on. Yanzi ChunQiu is the general collection of Yanzi's stories. As time passed by, Yanzi's stories are well-known in various literary forms and styles, moreover, it is unfailing in the following time. Based on the original Yanzi's stories, this paper has three main parts altogether. The first part gets an over-all survey of the circulation and evolution of Yanzi's stories. The second is the detailed analysis of several typical stories in the whole circulation and evolution process of Yanzi's stories so as to burrows into its deep-seated factors. The third part is some reflection about the circulation and evolution of Yanzi's stories. Benevolence and wisdom is the two typical characteristics of Yanzi, which is the footstone in this process. The mentality of deifying and consecrating the certain characters by exaggerating their weakness in the folks is the catalytic of the evolution of Yanzi's stories.