"yue" Study

As one of the sequels of The journey to the west, The complement of the journey to the west has a good imagination and a unique style, since its inception, it has got much attention and praise from many scholars. But the work is just over 40,000 words, has profound significance, related to Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, it has such a complex subject that it is difficult to interpret, its artistic technique is so different from contemporary novels that it could not analyze by conventional methods, so the academic research on this book is little and single, not fully reveal the precious ideological and artistic value. This paper on the one hand intends to use the method with reflection of life, to understand of the social background and the writer's life, on the other hand, use the method of close reading, proceeding from the text, deeply study the ideological content and narrative art. And study of the horizontal and longitudinal comparison respectively through The journey to the west, in order to grasp the unique value of this book.The whole paper contains 5 chapters.ChapterⅠis introduction, mainly on the literature searching of the study about The complement of the journey to the west. As the study of this book is dispersion, the significance of this paper is able to carry out comprehensive research. This paper works from the background, focuses on text analysis, studies from multiple perspective.ChapterⅡdescribes the social background and life of the author himself. Social background reveals the cultural connotations of late Ming Dynasty, analyzes the trend of the culture and explains the reasons, to get the impact from the social culture; author biography combines author's own writings and historical records, trying to show writer's inner character, to learn the pursuit and intentions of the work.ChapterⅢanalyzes in-depth of-the text, divides the theme into three structures:the surface level, the basic level and the deep level. The surface level is about the thought process of tripmaster monkey during the practice, can be divided into three stages:"into the illusion-go through the illusion-out of the illusion", inherited the prototype "recovery of loose heart" of The journey to the west. The basic level is about reflection and criticism of history and reality, society and life, mainly in the form of "five illusions", criticizes the various social aspect of the dark side, for example, the emperor, official rank, lovers, heroes, loyalty and traitor. The deep level is the discussion of the depression and anxiety on the human nature, mainly reflected in the thought and behavior of the protagonist and in the revelation on the wording. The three structures is of cross-complement each other, thus form the unique multi-faced and rich content.Chapter IV discusses the narrative art of The complement of the journey to the west. This paper studies the way of the work described first, the unique feature the frequent change of narrative perspective. Secondly, this paper presents the works of grotesque art, grotesque art research began in the west, but the way is common in which the incongruity of horror and comedy, abnormity, distortion and unfamiliarity, all can be found in the wonderful show of this book. Again,this paper studies the stream-of-consciousness art be praised in this work, this kind of art is also began to study abroad, but The complement of the journey to the west, early in the late Ming Dynasty, already had oriental way of this art, the differences from the west is there always clues to be found,not falling into the extreme irrational state, and often showing concern about community. Then, this paper studies the satirical art, which introduces the use of a variety of satirical skills consciously.Chapter V compare The complement of the journey to the west to The journey to the west respectively through the horizontal and longitudinal perspective, The complement of the journey inherited some features of the content, plot and theme of The journey to the west, but the figure of monkey king had a great innovation.