| The Swan-maiden-type story exists world-widely, the main plot of the story is mainly about a legend that an ordinary man (or hunters, or is the woodcutter etc.) happened to see a swan female (or birds, such as peacocks) taking bath, he hid the female swan’s plumage and forced her to have sexual relationship with him, but finally the female swan found the hidden Swan female plumage. Knowing the deception, she returns of Chlamydia. In China the Swan-maiden-type story, the narrative poem zhaoshutun became the same type of story representation for its outstanding representative and universality. Typical as it is, this story’s special geographical environment, the enrichment and the polishing of plots’content made itself a model in the same type of story in China; while universality means that as a Swan-maiden-type story, despite its uniqueness, zhaoshutun harmonize itself in plots with the same type of stories. In addition, zhaoshutun reached complete maturity "Gestalt" plot mode, the whole story is perfectly compact, which is very rare in the other similar stories. In China the Swan-maiden-type story, swan girl prototype regression is a classic plot unit, however, senior scholars studying the Swan-maiden-type story seldom paid attention to the significance of prototype regression plot unit. This article is based on the analysis of the narrative poem zhaoshutun prototype " regression plot unit, and states that the reason why swans girl made" prototype return" is the adult ceremony-namely a necessary transition of " Ji ceremony " and the prototype regression in plumage" which is a symbol of ecological meaning. This article also explores and discusses the Swan-maiden-type story of prototype regression plot unit in the circumstances of the Dai nationality’s narrative poem. |
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