Of The Region Characteristics Description In "San Yan"

"Sanyan", the classical short stories collection of ancient China and theoutstanding representative of citizen's literature, has drawn for us the socialpanorama of the Ming Dynasty with a vivid description of people's daily life in thedifferent region.Because the story-telling script novel generally draws resources from thecitizens' daily entertainment, it keeps naturally a close relationship with city life. Thespecific city culture is not only a gift, but also an inevitable restriction for thedevelopment of the story-telling script novel, thus the region is always its historicaland the cultural value's testimony. Therefore the research of the regioncharacteristics of "Sanyan" is of great significance in literature, history and culture.The region characteristics refer to the geographical humanities presented in thenovel including the regional customs, festivals, dialects and proverb. It also coverssuch aspects in the region as people's viewpoints, morality, character and disposition,and social systems as well as the production method and so on.The region characteristics are strongly manifested in the scenes of the novelwhich indicate the different terrestrial features. The cultural connotation of the citylife in the novel may be indicated through the analysis of different characters' mentalactivity, ideology and life style and so on.There are so many descriptions of the region charactcristics in "Sanyan", which aremainly driven by the needs of the different ways to deliver a speech in talking, thedemand of the citizens, the reliability of the plot and figures of the novel and so on.The research of region characteristics in "Sanyan", is not a simple discussion offolk custom, but a profound analyses of the regional characteristics of the scenes inthe novel as well as their aesthetic functions, including the metaphor and symbol,regional taste and style, custom, spatial changes and plot development, so as toexplore the mechanics of portraying characters' disposition and destiny and the deepstructure of the novel.