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Strange Circumstances The Symphony Moral Life

Posted on:2005-04-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L N HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360122991829Subject:Ancient literature
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Xie Duo is a collection of short stories written by Shen Qifeng in the mid-Qing dynasty, including twelve volumes, more than one hundred and twenty sheets. "Xie Duo" combined the taste of "xie", the miraculous stories and moral perfectly.The original meaning of "Duo" is a kind of ring. It is said that in ancient times wood ring was used when people were in class or discussing something about culture. So "Duo" also means enlightenment and education. Each sheet included two parts. One is an interesting and magical story, another is the author's reflections. The relaxed ambience, humorous words and natural teaching composed the special style of Xie Duo. In order to instruct people Shen Qifeng based on the theory of Confucian school, meanwhile adding the thoughts of Buddish and Taoism . He advocated devoidness of women , advised people to quit murder and pleasure. He also used some techniques of poetry and the traditional opera chuanqi. The anther's target of creation was improved in the process combined with sorts of ideologies and literature shapes.Abundant culture solid and origin have an important effect on the aesthetic style of Xie Duo. Several motify and prototypes in ancient novels were used by the autor. Xie Duo absorbed the imaginative and romatic frame in earlier novels and morals. The novel also learned from joke and improved the vividness of "Xie" to enlighten people finally. The article also refered to the culture groud and psychology of intellects in the Mid-Qing dynasty to analyze the influence of the synchronic culture to Xie Duo.Although the system of Xie Duo is simply unified by the two compoents "Xie" and "Duo", the skill had unique characters. The autor did not tell stories dully but to desigh narrative intentionally. The stereoscopic narrative skill was reflected in three aspects as following: the operation of space and time; the mixture of reality and fantasy; the complement of "Xie" and "Duo". Varied descriptive skills forged themagic and unique character altogether in "Xie Duo" which is fulling of imagination and dialectical thoughts.
Keywords/Search Tags:Xie Duo, Shen Qifeng, "Xie", "Duo" Chuanqi, moral, ironical
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