Study Of Yi Jian Zhi By The Theme Of Oral Tales

The source of Yi Jian Zhi story, includes oral communication and literature extract. There are 2022 stories main come from the records of others oral stories, called “Oral story”. This paper attempts to read the oral tales from the perspective of communicators. Contents fall into three parts:The first, discussing the basic situation of oral stories of Yi Jian Zhi. First of all, to sort out the oral communicators. According to the different of it, divided into direct oral communicators and indirect oral communicators; According to the length of time of people providing the story for Hong Mai, divided into long-term reporters and short-term reporters and encounter types, and most of them are not found by the researchers;According to the occupation of oral communicators, divided into officials, civilians and monks, warlocks, women and relatives. Based on the study of Wang Jin classification of Jinan University, the oral stories are divided into five themes: immortals and monks, nightmares, dreams, retributions and personnel matters starting with the creation of overall situation of Yi Jian Zhi oral tales.The second, studying the themes of dreams, retributions and personnel matters oral tales carefully. Through the research on the theme of dreams, it can discover the main contents of the career and daily life concerning by those people at that time. Analyses the specific historical sources and characteristics of this type of theme, concludes the imperial examinations, official career, birth, death and help by urgent attention and concern at that time, embodying a kind of fatalism thoughts. Based on the theme of retributions oral tales, it was divided into loyalty, filial piety, chastity and righteousness, enemies and corruptions. Thus, reach the fusion of the idea of good and evil of the Chinese tradition and the Buddhist karma thoughts. Yi Jian Zhi also involves some stories of the theme of human affairs, including the theme of biography of people and museum miscellanies. Specifically divided into clean and honest officers, chivalrous person, remarkable women, divination person, doctors, something weird, special antiquities, poetry and gossip and prescriptions. On the one hand, evaluate the moral meaning and superb technology by the reaction behind the characters. On the other hand, it also provides valuable information of great value for the understanding and study of the society of the Song Dynasty.The third, analysing the influence of Yi Jian Zhi oral tales for later novels. Yi Jian Zhi have achieved great artistic achievement, not only became the object for novelists obtaining materials, but also have certain influenced on their creation of novels. Especially in the two major themes of dreams and retributions, Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu were adapted to recreate some of the best stories, make San Yan Er Pai became the peak of the short vernacular novel. It seems that the content of the story, writing style and narrative techniques of Yi Jian Zhi are still its superiority, Yi Jian Zhi is still readable.