"Romance Of The Three Kingdoms" Anh The Vietnamese Chinese Character Historical Novel

The thousands years of literary relations between China and Vietnam are very abundant and complex. Due to special historical environment, Vietnam literature, particularly in the phase of the Middle Ages (from the tenth century to the nineteenth century), was impacted by Chinese literature, especially the genre of fiction. However, the Vietnam novels, particularly, the Vietnamese Chinese Character Historial Novel, developed based on their inner regular in the impacted course, and created the natural color fited in the soul of this nation, cultural characteristics and its own aesthetic concept.This paper focusson discussing the writer in the Vietnam medieval period accept and innovated what from the ' Romance of the Three Kingdoms' which was one of the Chinese four Great Classical Novels popular in Vietnam as Vietnam works. The paper focus on researching and comparing the Vietnamese Chinese characters history novels such as ' Emperor Li Zhi-unification' and ' Southern Industrial speech Zhi', 'The more prosperous Wong Chi' and other works. In addition to the introductory, the paper is divided into three main parts:The first part presents that the exchange of literature is an objective law of history, a very natural phenomenon in human being's cultural life. From the exchange, every nation of the world has chosen the possitive site of the foreign literature in order to promote it's own literature, which is the conditon that each nation continuely to steel itself and reflect fully its own national characteristics. Then to set in the classical literature of China, particularly the impact that classical novel on the Vietnam literature in the subject matter, content, form, style and so on. Finally, focuses that by the trade and diplomatic exchanges between the two countries, Chinese literature specally Chinese serial stories had been imported to Vietnam. The Vietnamese writers belived the serial stories can meet the demand at that time, to accept and create a number of new works. The Vietnamese Chinese character historical novel came out during this period.The second part focuses on setting in the acceptance and innovation about content between the Vietnamese Chinese character historical novel and Chinese classical novel 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'. This part focuses to analyze the subject matter and the concept of people and so on. In the aspect of subject matter, it is worthy to notice: in the works, Luo GuangZhong and Vietnamese writer both mainly used the historical themes, and choose the history phase of the ' chaotic' nature and conflict to create their own works. However, because the works didn't come out at the same time, their historial authenticity is not the same. The objectiveness of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' was almost lost because of time, orthodox ideas and folk concepts, while the reality of Vietnam historical novel was relatively reserved, and the vivid life environment reflected in the novels seemed to soak the soul of readers. Luo GuanZhong was a confuction, so he was dominated by the orthodox ideas and moral values in the human concept. He judged people in the view of Confucian moral, which was reflected most concretely in the plot of "anti-cao and endorse Liu": Almost all the characters belonged to "ShuHan-LiuBei" Group were the perfect performace, who possessed the gentheman's manner and style. In turn, the characters belonged to the group opposited to LiuBei's such as DongZhuo, CaoCao were described as villains rouge and heartless small person.There are maily simmilarities of characters in the Vietnamese Chinese character historical novel and 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' , dominated by confuncianism, Taoism, Buddhism and influented by Chinese ancient novels. For instance, Vietnam literatures evaluate the characters with the Confucian code of ethics, and the charaters in Vietnamese Chinese charater historical novel are described standing in the national position. Each person is not only with the orthodox point of view but also the national view.Generally speaking, the characters of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' and Vietnamese Chinese charater historical novel not only possess the personalities of that time, but also embody the national charateristies. If the characters in 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' are intergrations of orthodox concepts and people moral values, the charaters in Vietnamese Chinese character historical novels are the products of Confucian ideas and national spirits.The third part focuses on the Vietnamese Chinese historical novel with the ancient Chinese novel 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' in the form of the acceptance and innovation. This part focuses on the way to shape characters and structure of the genre. In the subject matter, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' successfully uses the apperance factor to shape the figures, but Vietnamese Chinese character historical novels use language and action to shape the characters. This clearly reflects the differences in shaping charaters between 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' and the historical novel. The former shapes character maily using the skill of realism. In the structure, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' is influenced deeply by Song-Yuan novels, in which 120 chapters develop according to the causality, every chapter beiginning with two lines of the poem, every important accident appriated by one or two poems, and the chapter with a most intense ending having the poem 'break down next time'. The Vietnamese Chinese character historical novel is impacted profoundly by the serial structure features of 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' . However, the Vietnam literators also make a few changes in order to make their novel suit for the environment and concept of Vietnamese. For instances, when they appreciate a chapter, they sometime use the poem which is different form 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms'. Sometimes the literators instead the poem with "the heaven and the earth" or "folk" to express their own attitude, and every chapter sometimes doesn't focusen the instense plot and the idiom "break down next time".Because of the special historical environment, the Vietnam literature, especially in the Middle Ages (from te nth century to the nineteenth century), is effected profoundly by Chinese culture and literature not only in poem but also in fiction which is the most deeply influenced genre. However, at the same time of acceptance, Vietnamese Chinese character history novel remains to run according to its inner regular, and the Vietnamese literators creat continuously the literature suit for soul of nation and aesthetic concept.In the course of exchange and acceptance, the national capability is tempered and steeled countinuously, eventually it roots and sprouts in the literature garden of country.