Studies Of Autobiographies Before The Tang Dynasty

Ancient Chinese autobiography as an important part of Chinese ancient literature, its unique value, and the first Tang Zichuanwen as the initial stage of Chinese ancient autobiography, its own characteristics, but academic history on first Tang Autobiography of relatively few studies. In view of this, the collecting and studying Tang first autobiography, in previous studies based on finishing the first autobiography Tang literary context of the development of the meaning of thinking and narrative features and with him were compared. The introduction part of this article is mainly of pre Tang Dynasty autobiography scope definition and the results of previous studies reviewed, the concept of autobiography has always been controversial. This is relatively broad concept, who described the life, experience, interest, whether it is life or half life, or some a stage, even a moment’s works are subsumed under "autobiography". Previous research results are mainly divided into two parts: literature review and research monographs and papers.The first chapter is first Tang Autobiography of development path, including three aspects: development background, classification, characteristics of the times, the development background mainly focus on political background, ideological background, literary background briefly, the classification, the Autobiography of classification mainly according to the style and content classification, the classification method is according to the classification of style, the style, including historical preface biography, the book preface biography, personal specialized biography, wrote an epitaph, autobiography, and tables, books, Zhao were all kinds of styles with autobiographical narration of life. Atypical autobiography is the historical preface biography, book preface biography, personal spread specially, since wrote an epitaph, autobiography is typical of the autobiography, table with the life of the readme, books, Zhao were all kinds of articles, these articles in the readme life with autobiographical. In addition to the horizontal classification, the third section of this chapter is to grasp the characteristics of the Autobiography of each specific era.The second chapter is the first to discuss the ideological implications of Tang autobiography, autobiography, the reason may be called for an autobiography, on the one hand. It requires that the author is more objective and fair evaluation of their social relationships and their in social life and historical development in the status and role, on the other hand, it must to show the author’s personality, especially spirit. Therefore, the Autobiography of the meaning of thinking, on the one hand is with the times is closely related to the thought contents of rich and colorful display, on the other hand is with the personal sense of self expression. This chapter focuses on the two parts.Biography belongs to the narrative style, narrative of Tang Dynasty autobiography has certain characteristics, in the third chapter, mainly around and selective narrative, the depth of intervention of subject to explore the narrative characteristics of the Tang Dynasty autobiography, autobiography the main intervention divided into obvious subject intervention and concealed the main intervention, the selectivity of narrative including the choice of narrator, narrative in case selection, narrative mode and narrative of art.In addition, autobiographies and biographies of the comparison is the focus of research, he passed to others is looked at, the autobiography is the self snoop, on the one hand, both the existence of some differences, on the other hand. Both are related. The last chapter of this article first from the narrative perspective, the narrative spirit to grasp the difference between the two, and then from his autobiography adopted to start, to classify, to further grasp the link between the two and the difference.