Research Into The Creation Process And Dissemination Of Feng Shen Yan Yi In Ming And Qing Dynasties

Feng Shen Yan Yi is a famous historical gods'and devils'romance novel , it spreads very broadly and holds an important status in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel history . The research into the novel Feng Shen Yan Yi has constantly been done from the Ming Dynasty till now, but the achievements are hot as great as expected , which is not as equivalent as its status in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel history . As far as the Feng Shen Yan Yi in the text production and dissemination, the predecessors have made much exploration of Feng Shen Yan Yi, but there's still a long concerned way to go . On the basis of the predecessors'research achievements , this thesis does further research with regard to the predecessors'such weak links as undetailed or unclarified illustration , aims at clarifying the novel's text production process and dissemination survey in the Ming and Qing Dynasties , and expects to reveal the novel's creation features and dissemination significance .This thesis is divided into four chapters.Chapter One: It mainly elaborates the creation process of Feng Shen Yan Yi. This part mainly explores the novel's creation process in the theme evolution of the story of Emperor Wu Attacking Emperor Zhou. It consists of three sections: events; folk tales, fairy tales and myths; the dramas and novels. As to the influence of folk tales, fairy tales, myths and the dramas over the novel's creation, this thesis mainly takes the characters'stories as a core and takes the evolution of the content of the stories as a breakthrough. This thesis emphatically illustrates the influence of such historical books over the novel's creation as Shang Shu, Shi Ji, and such novels as Wu Wang Fa Zhou Ping Hua, Lie Guo Zhi Zhuan and You Shang Zhi Zhuan . This thesis creatively puts forward the viewpoint that both the content and the language two aspects of Shang Shu, Shi Ji and You Shang Zhi Zhuan prove to exert much influence on the novel's creation. This thesis also illustrates the great influence of the four classic works: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Heroes of the Marshes, Journey to the West and Si You Ji over the creation of Feng Shen Yan Yi . Some of this content is also innovative.Chapter Two: It mainly elaborates the dissemination of Feng Shen Yan Yi in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The novel was mainly disseminated by mean's of text, drama and talk-song show. The text dissemination is mainly of the commercial nature. The drama and the talk-song show have the nature of entertainment, They expanded the audiences'scope. The disseminators and audiences contributed a lot to the dissemination of Feng Shen Yan Yi.Chapter three:It explains the reasons of the wide dissemination of Feng Shen Yan Yi . The four major reasons are political, economic, cultural and audiences'factors. The cultural factor includes the literature tradition element, scholars'propaganda element (external cultural element ) and the text-self element ( internal cultural element ).The text-self element includes three aspects: strange and illusory grows perceptibly, the interest attacks the audiences'hearts and the instruction and enlightenment. This is the most primary element and is also this thesis's second luminous spot .Chapter Four: It mainly illustrates the dissemination's the great influence of Feng Shen Yan Yi. It summarizes specific influence, such as its influence on the literature, on the people's life of later generations and its influence abroad.This thesis has mainly utilized methods of textual criticism science, the statistics and media studies, has done much research into the text production and dissemination of Feng Shen Yan Yi in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Through the research, it draws the following conclusions: First, Feng Shen Yan Yi has the attribute of historical gods and devils'romance novel by nature; Second, the novel's Creation process has experienced a complex and progressive process ,it is created in the way of"rolling snowball", just like the creation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Heroes of the Marshes , Journey to the West, it belongs to the type of generation accumulation novels, but it has its individuality characteristic in the text production ;Third , Feng Shen Yan Yi is mainly disseminated by three kinds of media in the Ming and Qing Dynasties , its dissemination has exerted certain recognizable and educational value and aesthetic and entertaining value for people; Fourth , it was disseminated very broadly , which has various reasons , such as political factor , economical factor , cultural factor and audiences'factor ; Fifth , it has exerted great influence over the latter generations , manifesting its great literature value , folklore value and crossing cultural dissemination value .