Study On The Celebrities And Their Mentality In A New Account Of Tales Of The World Of Han, Wei And Jin Dynasties

The book named A New Account of Tales of the World was very popular after it has been written.lt serves to show that the book was generally accepted by the society at that time.Although the figures chosen by A New Account of Tales of the World were not necessarily measured by the values of the age they lived,in the age of LiuSong Dynasty which Wei-Jin style still remained its charm,the writer chose the figures in a sympathetic way. Study on the figures and their mentalities in A New Account of Tales of the World is the main content of this thesis.Generally speaking, Tragedy is the main topic of the figures in A New Account of Tales of the World.The celebrities of Western Han Dynasty in the book were chosen by the writer because of their tragic feature and their embryonic character of Wei-Jin style. There was not a close connection between the celebrities of Western Han Dynasty and the celebrities in the later ages.After the failure of bringing peace and order to the country by morality, scholar-bureaucrat of Eastern Han Dynasty began to be dissatisfied with the current politics and doubt the morality exalted by themselves.Their attention came to focus on themselves instead of the country. And the transitional stage of the change is focusing on their families.The desire of self-actualization on politics of the celebrities reached to the top in the age of the tangled fight among the warlords.Under the name of morality,the celebrities tried to accomplish their political purposes wether by heart or not.The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove,as the first-rate celebrities who inherited the Eastern Han Dynasty style and initiated the Wei-Jin style,inherited the persistence of morality internally and initiated the Wei-Jin style outside.People of the Jin Dynasty imitated the Zhulin Literati's outside style mostly,so they went even far away from the Zhulin Literati.(Zhang Hua used to compare Hua Xin with Wang Lang.)The behaviour of the celebrities in Eastern Jin Dynasty behaved like a show.The false clam,the false solitude, even the result of divination might be false.The source of the artificiality may be the imitation of the celebrities in the earlier ages,may be the need of being approved by the society.While the artificiality was overflowing,the society began to give higher praise to the natural.That's all the adventures of mind of the celebrities in the book named A New Account of Tales of the World which this paper wants to show.