Research On The Han Dynasty's Mystery Novels And Quasi-Strange Stories

Since the 1920s,the study of novels of Han Dynasty began to receive attention after Lu Xun's special study of Han Dynasty novels in his book named A brief history of Chinese novels.But there are also some scholars had to be affected by his view that most of the novels of Han dynasty are faked by later generations.After 1980s,More and more scholars began to pay attention to Han dynasty novels,especially Han dynasty's mystery novels,and made the achieved Han dynasty's mystery novels have remarkable results in the background knowledge of the works through more detailed textual analysis.Because there is currently no systematic review,This paper attempts to summarize the characteristics of Han dynasty's mystery novels in terms of overall style and try to collect quasi-strange stories that are mixed in the works of the Han Dynasty,which contributes to a more comprehensive study of Han dynasty's mystery novels.This thesis takes the Han dynasty's mystery novels and quasi-strange stories as the research object.The introduction briefly summarizes the current academic achievements and space in this field and presents the research ideas,methods and significance in order to form the reader's understanding of the topic discussed in this paper.The first chapter aims to clarify related concepts.In the first section,this paper first gives an answer to the question of whether Han dynasty's mystery novels can be called conventional novels.Showing the changes of the concept of ancient novels and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of different novel concepts,this paper puts forward more scientific and reasonable novel elements.The second section traces the origin and even the confluence process of the words between Mystery and Fiction,and gradually highlights the novels of mystery as an important class of ancient novels.This kind of novel mainly narrates the writing characteristic of the object to the Gods,the Fairies,the Ghosts,the Monsters and the Demons.The third section determines the concept of quasi-strange novel used in this paper by combining different scholars'definition of the concept of quasi-strange novel from the actual research needs.The second chapter aims to sort out the controversial Han dynasty's mystery novels and determine the more credible research areas.This chapter is divided into three sections:geography,assorted historty and assorted notes.This paper sorts out the works of the mysterious novels that can be included in the Han Dynasty from the perspectives of author,age,title,compilation,and version.Because the academic circles have more discussion on the examination and defense of each text,this chapter is mainly to sort out the analysis and form a more credible research category.The third chapter aims to analyze the characteristics of the writing style of the Han dynasty's mystery novels.This paper summarizes the writing characteristics of the Han dynasty's mystery novels from the perspectives of narrative mode,image shaping,literary features and writing style.This chapter is divided into three sections:the change of geography,fairy trait and historical deduction.The fourth chapter focuses on collecting quasi-stranger stories in the works of the Han Dynasty.By sorting out historical and biographical literature,rich and exciting stories in Shi Ji and Feng Su Tong Yi,this paper expands the research scope of Han dynasty's mystery novels,and more comprehensively examines the results of the writing of the Han dynasty's mystery novels.The fifth chapter aims to reveal the historical context of the mysterious novels of the Han Dynasty and to explain the historical motives of the formation of the mysterious features of the Han Dynasty.Through the four perspectives of faith,politics,talents and literature,readers can combine the internal and external factors of literature to understand the growing environment of Han dynasty's mystery novels.