Evolutive Trace Of Case Story In The Ming Dynasty

Case story in the Ming Dynasty originated and developed from the case play in the Ming Dynasty and law amanuenses in the history,so at the very beginning it owns the characteristics of speciality and universality.Thus,the study of its evolution requires us to break down the historical shackles and then make out a comprehensive evaluation and position from multi-angle and multi-attribute.In a sense,case story in the Ming and Qing Dynasties can be regarded as the basic shape of ancient Chinese literary law text,with the basic characteristics of both "legal system literature" and "documentary literature".Thus a deep and meticulous research on case story on the one hand can straighten out its mechanism and evolutive trace as an important branch of folk of the legal case that popular fiction novels as an important branch of popular fiction,while on the other hand can grasp these authors' choices between legal system and morality.Ultimately,such a research can help us to seek out a deep emerging mechanism of the case story and provide necessary history reference for contemporary legal system literature.The main purpose of the introduction is to set a definition for case story,summarize previous studies on case story and then put forward the value,significance of this paper as well as the basic studying method.The focus of chapter one is to arrange the number and type of short case story in the Ming Dynasty,to analyze and deconstruct its basic form, thus strive to gain a systematic creative writing pattern.In chapter two,the author attempts to find out the process of formation of the basic pattern for case story by studying case stories in the Ming Dynasty from the perspectives of their emerging mechanism, narrative pattern and the formula of settling.What's more,the author tries to find out a set of rules in order to get an overall understanding of ease stories in the Ming Dynasty and the following generations.In chapter three,the author demonstrates the high degree of integrity and evolutive direction of case stories by selecting some representative scripts like 'Sanyan','Erpai' and' Huanxiyuanjia'.In the epilogue,the author primarily lays out the innovation of case story in the Qing Dynasty by stating the integrating process of case story and chivalrous fiction.