The Study On The Immortal Mount In Fairy Tales Before Song Dynasty

The so-called "immortals" novels, generally speaking, presents fairy monasticism into immortal and immortality of the religious novels, it is an important part of religious literature①.In this paper, the theory of fairy tales, mainly refers to the fairy characters as the description of the object, its content includes the fairy biography, fairy tales, Fairy Magic, fairy who love and so on. Han Giuliani "immortals" is China’s earliest a independent significance of the immortals novels, then the Han Wu inward, the deity biography "the immortals supplements" "Yong city set cents recorded" "immortals" fairy kind of novels was not poor, greatly enriched the immortals of Taoism, publicity of the Taoist theory.Before Song Dynasty, the fairy biography novel today mainly preserved in the early Song Li Fang was compiled in the large collection of classical Chinese Fiction "Taiping", its main compiled in two categories:"the fairy" and "fairies", seventy volumes.In fairy tales, the fairy story is the main expression of the object, its clothing, food, housing, the line has been the attention of people. In the Taoism thought, "fairy, instigate or body into the clouds, wingless fly; or driving the Dragon by cloud, on the day order; or for birds, Au floating Undying; or a stealth Birmingham, hovering in the mountains." ②As we all known, the immortals with natural ability to fly and change, but as human beings born with walking ability as, mortal trip will take a certain traffic tool to ride instead of walk, immortal travel will ride a horse, the research object of this paper for ore Song Dynasty fairy biography novel fairy horse images. The introduction part will be the fairy came the novel concept definition, and discusses the immortals rise of the novel’s background, summary of the academia, the song Marxian biography novels study status, discusses the research methods and the research significance. The text is divided into five parts:The first part:the myths and legends of the fairy horse. "Horse" is riding animal, common in the ore Bin classics fairy horse dragon, snake, horse etc.. "Book of mountains and seas" is the preservation of Chinese mythology is one of the most ancient, in the "book of mountains and seas" immortal for beast face God, "book of mountains and seas" gods, such as childbirth, Mans, Huron, by more than two dragons. In addition, there is often take the two snakes of the gods. In addition to the dragon, snake, also riding strange animals god. "Mutilation biography of King Mu of Chou mounts for full of exotic colors eight horses; Guangzhou" book of changes "Alisa" Nine Songs "immortal imperial dragon, Ma Chengdu walk description. The emergence of the myths and legends of the fairy horse, has presented the aesthetic features of fantasy and mystery, showing double freedom spirit and body, which later immortal novels have a certain influence.The second part:the type of song Marxian novels in the fairy horse. First class for fish and insects, mainly Chengdu, take the fish in two ways; the second category for the birds, mainly riding crane, husband and wife walk; the third beast, both by tiger, take Karin, take the White Hart and the gods, and immortal riding cattle, horses, sheep, donkeys, etc. these and people’s production and life are closely related to the animal walk; the fourth category for other classes, mainly in less common mounts, for example, such as "cane", "gourd"The third part:the song Marxian novels in fairy mount novel function. "Horse" as a kind of novel image, its function in the novel is mainly reflected in three aspects: aesthetic function, narrative function and structure function. First is the aesthetic function, immortals in the novel some fairy horse in not only the shape of strange shapes and special function, novel and interesting; some mounts in nature seems to pass human nature, understand human, quite cute, lovely; in addition, some for fantasy animals mounts but ancestors combines the characteristics of a variety of animals created and their powerful, fantasy and mystery, the fantasy characters in the novel from the point of view. Mo add mystery stories and interesting. Secondly, narrative function, some mount is also immortal status symbol, group immortal party "a tall by Lean, time take Karin, Chengdu",fairy level, horse riding also grades; in addition, crane, deer its noble proud and longevity of the image itself is a symbol of the identity of the gods; in the immortals in the novel, fairy horse often Lean, Phoenix like bird, language this kind of bird and female immortal attributes are all negative, to emphasize the goddess graceful and gentle attitude. Finally, functional structure, god horse is medium of communication the celestial and earthly, in Mount bearing the immortal round-trip to the real world and the fairyland, greatly reducing the distance of time and space, save the round the world by the time, played a role in the construction of the plot.The fourth part:the song Marxian novels in fairy horse culture. First is the Taoism deity belief:from the horse riding the host, they are mostly ascetics, these ascetics or enthusiastic in the study of Geo Confucianism, or charitable line, the alchemy of medication, temperament elegant, different from the ordinary people; mount attributes from the point of view, some Xian mounts itself is a symbol of deity, with religious and cultural meaning of immortality, reflecting the belief on immortals of Taoism. Followed by flying fantasy and free pursuit:a fairy to soaring, since from ore Bin Dynasty to the Tang and the Five Dynasties classics, the ancients to soaring fantasy experienced attempts, reflecting the outstanding imagination. Animals and people’s life is closely linked, with the aid of animal soaring is not only reflects the ancient people of animal totem worship, and in practice flights become feasible andThe fifth part:summary of the content of this article.