The Study Of The Loyalty Story Of Yu Qian

The Loyalty Story of Yu Qian that has two main editions of seventy chapters at first and forty chapters appearing inlatter time is a historical biography novel created by many men of letters who lived in the Ming Dynasty. Many scholars have studied this novel and their most important achievements contains the Foreword of this book, the Postscript of Collation by Sun Yizhen, the On the Several Popularized Novel about Yu Qian by Miao Huaiming and the On the Age of Completion of Four novels in Ming Dynasty by Chen Dakang .The Loyalty Story of Yu Qian adopted widely from not only official historical records but also the privately compiled history and legend. This paper will focus on the differences of Yu Qian's life between history and novels, the story source of novels and the completion of this book at visual angle of edition, author and the time of being written. By this research we can find the composing principle of fabrication without concerning it is true or not over quoting from historical data official or unofficial. Generally, because of the telling in a simple way and the over-genteel language, and the too many historical documents and poems inserted in novel, this fiction seemed to be as dull sad etch water. Besides, by means of contrast of the deleting and changing between the two editions of The Loyalty Story of Yu Qian, we can get the truth that the reason of this book'population is the outcome of market'choose when this novel came into society as a commodity. It is the market that make people change their points on fiction as a literature type.The Loyalty Story of Yu Qian is the first novel about contemporary person composed by contemporary writers, and it paved for the latter scholars'writing popularized novel as well as sparked off the flourishing of fictions on current events in the Later Ming Dynasty.