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Wu Story, Under The Influence Of Traditional Moral And Ethical

Posted on:2008-12-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T T HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360212988040Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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It's well known that since the ancient times, people has been study the story of WU Zixu. It's the historical records that head opens first river, and lead it into people's visual field. A accompanied with the deduce of scholars, the permeability of myth consciousness,the adoption of the folk literature, and the deduce of the drama or novel,the reappear of drama stage, the great attention on WU Zixu's story has cause great upsurge on Chinese Literature History.The thesis of WU Zixu's stories belonged to the times from The Spring and Autumn Period to The Qing Dynasty. By the positivism method, all the materials have been divided into three major categories. At the same time , in each part, all materials will be put in to order according to the ages they belonged too Combined with such factors, such as relate ages,cultural and historical background ......etc, the thesis will show thoroughly study, and result inthe reason of different emotion tendency. There will be a comprehensive conclusions about these complicate, contradictory emotion tendency and moral judgment. At last, the thesis has its own deliberate conclusion.Part 1 mainly put the historical records that existing today in to order, and from which we can found the reason why different people draws different conclusions on WU Zixu.The relatedsummarizes will show readers two major emotion evaluation and moral judgment------" Faithfulminister" and "Filial son ".Part 2 mainly study WU Zixu's revenge. The aim is to find how the national psychology, era background , social thought and cultural fashion of different times affected the evaluation on Wu Zixu's revengeo Because in ancient China, the relationship between political and literary, civilian was so close. Political literature and moral principle not only affect and constrain the conduct of historical people, but also deeply effect people's thought pursuit.Part 3 mainly discuss Wu Zixu's loyalty and his faithful admonition. The chapter selects two representative literary work: 《The Legend Of Washing Yarn》, 《The Legend Of WU Zixu and Shen Baoxu》as its study object. From which the thesis show its thought of contradiction between "faith" and "filial piety". Then the thesis would comment the contradictions by some related moral or political theories.Part 4 mainly choose two representative literary, historical works: 《The History of Wu AndYue》, 《Chronicles of The States of East Zhou Dynasty》 to discuss. These two woks not only have summarize and synthetic significance in the development of Wu Zixu's story, but also on the content and ideology and article aspect.Part 5 mainly summarizes the other materials about Wu Zixu------such as folktale, unofficialhistory, literary sketches , folk songs, slang......etc. By reading these materials, we can findWu Zixu's new literary image which hidden in these popular literature. And what moral, aesthetic pursuit these Wu Zixu's new literary images could tell us.The last part draw the last conclusions of the thesis: The thought of Wu Zixu'sstory------Thought of a minister's revenge to the Emperor; thought of his faithful life; thoughtof his destination tragedy. But it's the conflict of moral, political principle , even the conflict in ethics that cause the contradictions on the judgment of Wu Zixuo At the same time, we should find the human strength of the story: people should resist the absolute monarchy power and unfair destiny; people should have his own intelligence.. At the end, the thesis tell us that the ultimate meanings of this story is to affirm the value of personal's existence by deny negativing one's life......
Keywords/Search Tags:Wu Zixu, Revenge, Loyalty, Moral evaluation, Contradictions and hazy, Human Strength, Ultimate meanings
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