Research On The Traveling Stories In The Short Stories Of Tang Dynasty

Among the short stories of Tang dynasty,there are many narrations and descriptions about traveling activities,which involve what characters see and hear during the travel,emergencies during the travel,characters' trip modes,cultural concepts and folk beliefs related with traveling activities,and so on.While closely correlate with real life,these parts of the short stories are fully fictional,take on various novel functions,and thus make them an ideal window to inspect the short stories of Tang dynasty.There is no lack of crime stories in the short stories of Tang dynasty,among which travel crime is a typical kind.Based on the criminals' identities,travel crimes in the short stories of Tang dynasty can be divided into three types,which are plunder by the military governors,crimes committed by robbers,and murders on masters by slaves.The specialties of the travel crimes in the short stories of Tang dynasty make them difficult to be solved.Usually,the clearing up of the travel crimes in the short stories of Tang dynasty need some hyperphysical forces.The specific modes are roughly appearing in one's dream to show the criminal,comeuppance,revenging by the ghost,using human force to solve,etc.Shipwreck is a common travel accident in the short stories of Tang dynasty.There are three kinds of explanations to the reason of the shipwrecks in the short stories of Tang dynasty,which are comeuppance,destiny,and bogeys haunting.These explanations reflect people's disaster concepts in Tang dynasty in a certain degree.The lack of first-aid force during the travel in real life in Tang dynasty leaves rich imagination space to the novel works,and the lack of the protection force during the travel in Chinese traditional beliefs makes the protection forces during the travel in the short stories of Tang dynasty diversified.On the whole,the protection forces during the travel which have a universal meaning in the short stories of Tang dynasty are no more than religion force and a certain concept that high-ranking people have protection naturally which born out of destiny concept.It is a unique phenomenon that the short stories of Tang dynasty have a lot of sailing stories,distinguished from the short stories in the previous generation.While deeply rooting in reality,the sailing stories in the short stories of Tang dynasty contains a large number of imaginary descriptions of the overseas world,among which there are three kinds of most prominent contents,which are overseas foreign country imagination,overseas fairyland imagination,and sea monster imagination.There is a kind of surrealistic traveling plot in the short stories of Tang dynasty,the narrations and descriptions about traveling activities of which are far beyond the reality of life in Tang dynasty.This kind of surrealistic traveling plot can be divided into magical travel and distinctive vehicle.The magical travel is mostly on the part of speed,referring to the surrealistic and with miraculous speed traveling activities in the short stories of Tang dynasty.These magical travel plots originate from the short stories of celestial being in the two Han dynasties to the six dynasties,and have some new changes in the short stories of Tang dynasty.Except for cars,horses,and ships,there are some distinctive vehicles mentioned in the short stories of Tang dynasty.These distinctive vehicle plots not only embody the fertile imagination of the short stories of Tang dynasty,but also reflect its interest gist.The short stories of Tang dynasty are organic combination of fiction and reality,which have a close connection with real life.Through the viewpoint of traveling activities,we can have a more comprehensive understanding of the relationship between fiction and reality in the short stories of Tang dynasty.