Study Of The Male Image Of The Legendary Tang Marriage

Our traditional novel, written by classical Chinese, developed into mature period in Tang Dynasty which is called the Tang legend. As narrative literature, Tang legend makes great achievements, among which the mold of the male image is amazing. The article mainly analyzes the male image in novel of love and marriage legend. The former researcher focuses more on the feminine image, than the male image. Even the existing research is generally attacking the masculine image with the sound of drumbeats. According to reading and analyzing, the author discovers that the epoch spirit, which refracted on the masculine vivid image, the contradiction and the complexity are worth pondering. Deep research on the masculine image should on its way, thus a fair and comprehensive understanding on the Tang love and marriage legend can be made. Love is one of human greatest emotions, in the admirable love demonstrated in Tang love and marriage legend, the masculine image is an indispensable important part, which is also an important basic of this article's discussion. This article takes the concern relation love and marriage story theme in the Tang legend as a scope. In the process of concreted elaboration, this article takes the stories with complete plot for example. According to the researcher's comments on the masculine image and his love attitude in the concrete work, these images can be divided into two kinds: the spooney and the fickle, the former is loyal to love, and hope to extend the love to marriage. And the later is named after the fickle because they cannot insist on love. But the spooney and the fickle, both have some characteristics in common: Nearly all the male image are talent student and have great morality; In the relationship of love, without excluding the sex attraction, they have paid the sincere emotion as well, and long for the ideal love. but kinds of contradictory between the love and the imperial civil service examination official career, love and the family of meritorious and family status rank idea, love and feudal etiquette system's become the barriers on the way towards marriage, which causes the masculine image in the paradoxical eddy current, and their stories are often ended by tragedy. This kind of result has either direct or the indirect relations with unique society culture in Tang Dynasty society. The multi-dimensional opening cultural atmosphere enabled the male to have the opportunity and possibility to pursue free romantic love boldly. The imperial civil service examination test improves the intellectual status and cultivates their relaxed mood at the same time. Certainly the imperial civil service examination system , helping them enter Shi-class, can stimulate the scholars to pursuit for fame and fortune meritorious achievements, which conflict with the romantic love; Although Tang Dynasty, as a feudal society, the etiquette system is inferior to the descendant, but when referring to important life matter, such as love and marriage ,it is still the etiquette cored by the hierarchical system, the family status idea, the marriage system that plays the decisive role. The marital litigant has no independent rights. Therefore in the Tang love and marriage legend the masculine image may unfold their imagination wing, open their heart to make richly colorful romantic love story with different female belong to different ranks, but when referring to marriage, they fell into the contravention: to obey the social norm or to pursue real love. Generally speaking, there are three kinds of choices: Struggle, submission (compromise), and the distortion (rationalization). Although there are three kinds of choices, but the result is always a tragedy. The male should take great responsibility in these love and marriage tragedy, but we should also realize that various of reasons cause this kind of tragedy, such as the negative element in male and female's character, the charming of the imperial civil service examination test, the huge attraction of family status idea that make them intend to marry one with amazing wealthy and in prominent family, thick wall of hierarchical system's impediment, and the decisive authority the parents preside at a wedding and so on. Moreover, the man, who loses love, suffer marriage unfortunate and great sorrow, therefore they are also the tragedy victims. so we cannot absolutely possess the responsibility on them. Moreover, the imperial civil service examination system creates the special writer group devoting themselves to novel creation (mainly refers to love and marriage legend creation). Their preference to making friends, attending kinds of activities and their universal psychology seeking for quaintness lead the love and marriage topic enter the legendary creation. The author selects realistic material; use the technique in which the realism and romanticism are organically unified. The author often writes the fictional sentiment, but expresses true feelings; Takes advantage of describing ghosts and gods, but refers to the reality; Comprises his intention in dream, but for the purpose to explain the life. Furthermore, Tang legend inherits the Six Dynasties' traditional creation idea, which emphasizes "the human", but in Tang Dynasty, the writers are more self-conscious, molding more vivid character image. The method is bountiful, appearance description is concision and lifelike, detail description exquisite, the dialogism is rich in the individuality, the psychological portray fluctuates windingly; the works is good at enclosing the typical environment, selecting typical event in order to highlight the character image, it is also good at promulgating the complexity of the character disposition in the incisive contradictory conflict and creating the model 's individuality. This lifelike artistic image has the intense artistically charming, provided many beneficial artistic experiences for the descendant novel and drama. Some Tang legend make evolution in the later generation, the masculine image in Tang Dynasty has provided the ante type for the later generation's literary production.