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On The Image Of The Dragon King's Daughterin Yuan Poetic Drama

Posted on:2009-03-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245972130Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Dragon and the Chinese nation's culture,history(especially the Han nationality) has a close relationship.In the literary world,the image of the Dragon King's daughter is not uncommon.However,before the dynasty of Wei,Jin,Sui, Tang,the literary image of dragon is simple,the role of "Dragon King","Dragon King's daughter" is not there,and no more the vivid stories.The images of "Dragon King" and "Dragon King's daughter" in Chinese Literature were appeared on the Tang Dynasty.The tales of dragon king's daughter alone,most of its theme as "Dragon owing a debt of gratitude" and "Boiling sea and subdue the dragon" mode.Verifiable,in the Tang Dynasty,the tales of marvellous about Dragon king's daughter are related to the impact of the Buddhist scriptures.To the Yuan Dynasty,there has been two famous Dragon king's daughter theme show - drama " Yi Liu Deliver Letter On Dongting Lake " and " ChangSheng boiling sea On Shaman Island." In the drama,the Dragon king's daughter and the intellectual mutual loved,developed into family in the end.The theme changed from "owing a debt of gratitude" and "boiling the sea" to marriage and love.The Dragon king' daughter leaped in for the protagonist of the tales,the drama presented large number of entries,dialogue,action and other detailed description to portray the image of Dragon king's daughter,and the Dragon king's daughter was in pursuit of the freedom of love throughout the drama.The dependant family of the lovers is affirmed the spirit of independent.The author proposed the subject origin for the two dramas,and explored the image origin and development of the Dragon king's daughter in Yuan poetic drama.This paper is divided into two parts.The first part is mainly from the Tang Dynasty Buddhist scriptures and tales of marvellous,does textual research about the origins of "deliver letter" and "boiling sea".And expound the development of the dragon king's daughter image from the perspective of the dragon culture,context that the Yuan poetic drama was direct successors of Tang's tales of marvellous and India Buddhist stories.The second part of paper focus on the Dragon king' daughter image analysis, pointed out that the image of Dragon king's daughter in India Buddhist stories is flimsy;in the tales of marvellous of Tang dynasty,the image of dragon king's daughter developed,but not well-developed,the main line,love is fuzzy or simply not.Only in Yuan poetic drama the image of Dragon king's daughter is well-developed,and the theme of love has become very clear.The tales of dragon king's daughter had a great leap forward now,their thoughts,art and even beyond the image of Dragon king's daughter in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yuan poetic drama, the daughter of Dragon King, Tang Legend, Buddhist sacred literature, Theme transition
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