Sea Narrative And Its Cultural Connotation In The Ming And Qing Novels

The ocean is the cradle of life bearing. When people to re-examine the ancient cradle of life, produced or near or far, or specific and vivid feeling. So the ocean full of divine, strange in the early awareness sense. Marine culture caused people to recall and calls for the ocean. Accompanied by the emergence of language, people began to describe the ocean, the ancient Chinese people have created a lot of excellent marine literature works. Myths and legends, poetry or, have expressed people for various emotion ocean. In the early part of the story and legend, recorded a lot of marine organisms. Creators with its rich imagination, produce their own on the ocean views, set up preliminary ocean view. The myths and legends of the story about a complete description to the novel, from the aspects of narrative of the ancient Chinese people’s sea-related activities and experiences, for subsequent novels provided rich material and extension of space. Expression of the people on the ocean in different periods of time perception. With the increasing of the sea and the overseas trade of China, ancient sea novels tend to be prosperous in the Ming and Qing dynasties.This paper is divided into three parts:introduction, text, epilogue.The introduction part is mainly on the significance of the topic, research status and research ideas and methods of the paper. The first chapter of the text to the origins and morphological analysis, each historical stage by tracing paper to narrative, to find out the characteristics of each historical period literature to narrative, analysis of whole and segment type to find sea narrative types, the basic starting point and the point of the paper demonstrates that. Types of theme and structure model of second chapter to narrative, classify the narrative in the novel to the sea, to the analysis of the sea narrative. Third chapter is the analysis of sea narrative art, starting from the text, focusing on the plot of the novel, exotic imagination and aesthetic significance. The fourth chapter describes the new changes to the cultural connotation of the ancient world, out of the concept of space, find resolution and new changes of cultural and psychological change and the Ming and Qing Dynasties overseas trade of Hua yi. The conclusion mentioned to the influence on the contemporary literature and culture and inspiration.