The Study About Romance Of The Sui And Tang Dynasties In Comparative Perspective

Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, a historical romance book written by ChuRenhuo in Qing Dynasty, whose stories are quite popular with the masses, and whichis also the representative work of books telling Sui and Tang history. But this bookabsorbed in many story plots in Adventure of the Emperor Yangdi and the History ofSui Papers. Therefore, when researching this book, Adventure of the Emperor Yangdiand the History of Sui Papers cannot be ignored. The paper makes a comparativeresearch on the book from the following four perspectives: the coming of the book,subjective, characters and narrative.The first part respectively introduces the authors and how the books were createdof the three books, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties, Adventure of the EmperorYangdi, the History of Sui Papers. Chu Renhuo created two generation’s marriage tolink Sui and Tang Dynasty up by cutting, increasing and merging the story of EmperorYangdi in Adventure of the Emperor Yangdi as well as interspersing the heroes’ storyin the History of Sui Papers. Therefore, Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties is acomposed set enjoying its own characteristics as well as born in Adventure of theEmperor Yangdi and the History of Sui Papers.In the second part, the similarities and differences in subject characteristics andphilosophy tendency of the three books, Romance of Sui and Tang dynasties,Adventure of the Emperor Yangdi, the History of Sui Papers. The book integrateshistorical romance, talents and beauties, and hero legend more emphasis is laid onloyalty and righteousness.The third part is the analysis of image. On the basis of Emperor Yangdiimage--dissoluteness and bad-governance in Adventure of the Emperor Yangdi thebook also shows his true love for the beauties. Chu Renhuo gave praise to those withfirmness and loyalty when describing female characters like Zhu Guier, and criticizedthose without loyalty such as Empress Xiao, which reflects women’s free and openenvironment by describing the women’s survival state at that time. The heroes’ imagesare different from that in the History of Sui Papers whose priority is given to QinQiong. The book also gives enough attention to heroes such as Cheng Yaojin and Shan Xiongxin and so on, and describes their life and marriage story, so as to makethe heroes close to life and the masses, showed the inclination of the secularizationand human feeling.The fourth part is the novel narrative. In the Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties,the combination of narrative way of storytellers and the official narrative way are used,boasting of both the objective description of the third person, and the first person tocommunicate with readers. Narrative point of view is given priority to omniscientperspective; in addition, the flexible limit perspective plays an important role inshaping characters and rendering scene. In narrative structure, the two generation’smarriage is the main structure, with time clues, causal fate, and characters’ destiny ascomplement, forming a small structure in main structure, miscellaneous but not loose.