A Comparative Study Of “Historic Notes Of Shao Bowen” And “Historic Notes Of Shao Bo”

These two notes work “Historic Notes of Shao Bowen” and “Historic Notes of Shao Bo” have been widely concerned in terms of the historical value all the time.The literary circle regards these two works as literature texts while seldom discuss the literary value.According to the research by comparing their literary side,it is discovered that there are numerous similar or different points existing in these two works.These similarities and differences profoundly indicate the inheritance and development of literary creation between Shao Bowen and Shao Bo and achieve their unique features with a research value in depth.Apart from the introduction and conclusion,the paper are divided into three chapters and the third one is the key point of discussion:First chapter: The comparison of the stylistic rules & layout and ideology between “Historic Notes of Shao Bowen” and “Historic Notes of Shao Bo”.As for the ideology,Shao Bowen and Shao Bo both showed a positive attitude to life thus expressed their concerns on politics in their works.Because at that moment the political environment impacted the authors' concept of creation,these two works are characterized by various similarities and differences in all aspects thus reflecting their relationship of inheritance and development.As for the stylistic rules & layout,“Historic Notes of Shao Bowen” has an characteristic of the interal orderliness and content uniformity while “Historic Notes of Shao Bo” is featured by its record randomness and miscellaneous content,which reflect the difference that is caused by what the authors recorded between their concept of creation.Second chapter: The comparison of historical materials between “Historic Notes of Shao Bowen” and “Historic Notes of Shao Bo”.These two works have an outstanding feature of numerous analysis in the images of scholars when recorded.That the author expected to make cautions to the scholars by discussing the their images is a performance of moral education of Confucianism.Their preference of creative ideas and content's recording has a kind of deviation causing by their own situation.Hence a convert from praising Two Cheng to excluding Su Shi from rewriting history to rewriting history and recording other incidents in many aspects,which is another expression that the social and political environment had a far-reaching influence on anthors' concept of creation.Third chapter: The comparison of literariness: In this chapter,writer demonstrates the similarities and differences of the literary facters existing in the two works via a detailed analysis and comparison of two aspects: the tendency of creation and artistic characteristics and then present their literary value.This chapter is the central part of the paper.