The Study Of The Fables In "Chuang-tzu"

"Fable" was proposed in the "Chuang-tzu". The whole text is consisted of two hundreds of fables. Wang Fuzhi said that:"If you are tend to enjoy the Chuang tzu, you had better read’Chuang-tzu Under Heaven’and’Chuang-tzu Fable’".He thought that the "Fable" and "Under Heaven" is the preface of the book. The importance of it is self-evident."Fable" didn’t originate from "Chuang-tzu", however, compared with the pre-qin,it plays an important role in the history of the Chinese literature. It has a profound effect on the theoretical significance and application value to the study of fables of "Chuang-tzu". From Wei and Jin Dynasties,there are quantizes of people studying in the field of the fable of the "Chuang-tzu". However, they often made the fable as part of the study. That occupied important position among long period. Meanwhile, there is not a monograph as well as special literature in this respect even more.So,the concept of the fable of "Chuang-tzu" can be taught as a changing. Specifically, from the beginning of the explanations on the meaning to the academic monographs published. This is of far-reaching reference value to both the study of fable and literature,which also affords its researchers an opportunity to make a systematic study of "Chuang-tzu". To a certain extent, there exists some controversial issues in numbers, philosophical thoughts as well as differences and similarities of the fable, which contributed to make impossible to unify views. On the basis of the previous studies, we attempt to make full use of the methods of literature,analysis, the crossing of the diachronic and synchronic,comparative to pursuit some useful explorations.The paper is mainly divided into four sections.Part one:Chapter1,introduction. First of all,it is necessary to make a review of the present situation,the selection reasons of the study and discuss the specific methods of the paper. Part two:Chapter2, The diachronic evolution of the concept of fable. Though the critical review of the mainly literature, we tend to be trace back to the source of the fable of "Chuang-tzu". This paper researches into how to establish the standards of the ways of dividing fables, which will be explained respectively.Part three:Chapter3,The number of the fable and image analysis. We will analyses the each of each article step by step, a classification of the fable is made to aid the meaningful research in the after research.Part four:Chapter4, The differences between various fable.We can make a conclusion among the works of Mencius, Lieh-tzu, Hanfei-tzu by comparing the differences between the Chuang-tzu.Part five:Chapter5,conclusion. Summarizing the whole paper, listing the conclusions of each part, look into the future of the research of the fables f in the "Chuang-tzu".