The Study On Fantastic Transformation Types In Wei, Jin, Northern And Southern Dynasties’ Weird Novel

The main content of weird novel is about the story and legend of gods, ghosts andmonsters. As a unique style of weird novel, fantastic transformation story gathered theunconscious image construction, the plot of which was circuitous and lively withstrong romantic colors.This article was divided into three parts including introduction, main body andepilogue. The introduction part summarized the current situation and existingproblems of the fantastic transformation story in Wei, Jin, Northern and SouthernDynasties’weird novel and traced to the source of its formation. We regarded theimmemorial myth, primitive religion and pre-Qin allegory as the origin of fantastictransformation story.The main body including the following four chapters:Chapter1‘The generating environment of fantastic transformation story’considered the developing process of fantastic transformation story had beeninfluenced by witchcraft, Taoism and Buddhist thought. The prevailing of idle talkhad pushed the process of the changing from spreading to recording. The author’screation concept had been affected by the non-fiction principle of historical literature.Chapter2‘The research on the type of fantastic transformation story’ discussedfour categories of fantastic transformation including the transformation of animal,object, god, ghost and monster, etc. The plots of these stories were miraculous withvarious transformation types and purposes. Some stories were even used to interpretthe religious doctrine. Some of the transformation types were inherited as fixed storymode and fused with consciousness of social reality and other cultural spirits, thusbroadened their expression to the life.Chapter3‘The ideologies that were reflected by fantastic transformation story’indicated that these stories intensively reflected the view of god and ghost at that timewhich thought the god and ghost as real existence. The expression of love view wasmainly the longing for love and the aspiring to lust which had been inhibited.Chapter4‘The artistic features of fantastic transformation story’ described thenarrative artistic characteristics of the fantastic transformation stories. Thought that the fantastic story because of its involving changing, in writing it widely usednarrative structure with setting suspense and narrative way of characture languageand inserting poetry, on the narrative perspective it adopted narrative way of totalperspective and limited perspective...