Jingjiang Baojuan's Cursive Story Research

Jingjiang Baojuan are homologous with other regions' Baojuan,but they had shunted in the process of circulating.Until today,ceremonial behavior of talking and singing Baojuan is still prevailing and gradually forms its own system in Jingjiang.Furthermore,because there don't has other local talking and singing art or dramatic category,therefore talking and singing Baojuan has important recreation function besides belief function.Nevertheless,this recreation function concentrates mainly on Caojuan.The stories in the Caojuan are fairly long,the space of Caojuan reaches over the half of the total amount of Jingjiang Baojuan.Yet,the previous scholars few have ever touched it.So this paper wills mainly taking 18 stories of Caojuan,which were collected in Chinese Jingjiang Baojuan,for research objects,and try to thoroughly study it from various aspects.In the introduction section,firstly we will review research situation of Baojuan,which did by domestic scholars from Huang Yupian of Qing Dynasty.Secondly,we will brief research situation of Baojuan,which did by foreign scholars who are focused on the Japanese scholars.Finally,we will introduce the current research status about the Jingjiang Baojuan.In the first chapter,the first section overall introduce the classification,effect and significance of Jingjiang Baojuan;the second section analyzes mainly the formation age of Caojuan.In the second chapter,we will systematically summarizing theme connotations of 18 stories of Caojuan,which were collected in Chinese Jingjiang Baojuan.These theme connotations can be roughly classified into four types:narrate the struggle between loyal officials and treacherous ones,affirm the love between men and women,eulogize folk chivalrous spirit,scourge worldly rascality.Finally,we will analyze the stories of Caojuan which draw lessons from the theme and plot of traditional novels.The third chapter analyzes artistic characteristics of the stories of Caojuan.The first section introduces character images of stories of Caojuan;the second section introduces structure model;the third section introduces linguistic features.The fourth chapter mainly introduces folk customs and folk belief.The first section combines with the text to analyze folk customs about Kujia and marriage;the second section introduces prosperous civic life;the third and fourth sections mainly analyze folk belief.In a word,we can see some beautiful universe in the stories of Jingjiang Caojuan that is often ignored by Confucian classics,historical records,philosophical writings and miscellaneous works.Love and hate,value judgments,hopes and ideals of the stories of Caojuan still exist in everyone's consciousness.So we should be aware that to respect folk culture and art,opinions and beliefs is just to respect our nation's past and future.