Spatial Narration And Cultural Implications Of The Stories Of The Journey To The West

The Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty,taking geographical space as a clue,describes Xuanzang's experiences along the way of taking sutras from the Western Heaven.The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty exerts great influence on the later novel Journey to the West from the aspects of narrative,text space and imagination,and basic narrative structure.The poems of the Three Tibets in the Tang Dynasty,with the theme of regional space,portrays images through space.The narrative relies on the transformation of scenes,and the story unfolds because of the spatial characteristics.The Zaju of Journey to the West introduces the living space of teachers and apprentices.Geographical space is further emptied and more inclined to the space in Buddhism.The description of the spatial characteristics of Flame Mountain and Woman country is also used in the book of Journey to the West.The space written in the games of Song,Yuan and Western Dynasties mainly includes three categories: the space in the opera with the theme of Jiangliu stories,the space in the opera with the theme of Guanyin and Naju,and the space in the opera with the theme of Erlang God.Journey to the West is the soul of the whole story group.The space in the book is also more complex and full of artistic color,which can be roughly divided into real space and surreal space.Regional content,scenery content and social content are the elements of space in Journey to the West.The book constructs the space in the westbound countries.The space characteristics of each small country are different.The author organizes the plot with the change of space,and arranges the scenes of three times borrowing banana fans in a relaxed way.Among them,the transfer of space is skillfully connected.The surreal space in Pilgrimage to the West is divided into heaven and earth.These conceptual spaces originate from people's pursuit of longevity and Buddhist concept of life and death cycle.After the completion of Journey to the West,there appeared some sequels and legendary operas in the Qing Dynasty."Journey to the West" describes the space on the way back to the east.The space set up by the center is mostly symbolic.Many mountains and forests written on the way have both natural and symbolic meanings.The space in "Journey to the West" has a strong symbolic significance.The author takes the lotus flower sitting on the platform of Buddhism as an image,and creates the lotus flower village,which is the sacred place of the author's ideal,with a focus on describing Yundu Mountain.Pilgrimage to the West is the most artistic achievement in the sequel,which creates a mackerel world of fantasy,mirror illusion and emotional illusion.In the legends of the Qing Dynasty,"Fishing Boat" and "Rivers" described the prefecture.There is not much difference between the space description in Shengping Baoraft and Journey to the West.In The Journey to the West,Yin and Yang Erqi Mountains are mainly written,which put the concept of Yin and Yang in ancient Chinese philosophy into the description of space.The space in the stories of the journey to the West has rich cultural implications.It is the inheritance and breakthrough of the model of Shanhai Jing and the mysterious stories of the Wei,Jin and Six Dynasties,which more romantically reflects people's fantasies about foreign lands.The description of the local government in the stories of the journey to the West reflects that people use conceptual space to restrain morality.Deeply,the sequel to the Journey to the West also extends the thought of psychology,turning the Westward Journey of substance into an illusory way of spiritual cultivation,and enhancing the philosophical meaning of the novel.The spatial narrative in the Journey to the West and its sequels is also of great metaphorical value,which guides people to think morally about the space they write.The spatial narrative of the story of the journey to the west not only inherits and breaks through the traditional Chinese narrative literature,but also has the color of the modern western narrative works.The route from east to West reflects not only the opposition between the center and the edge in geography,but also the opposition between the center and the edge in cultural exchange.The description of space in Journey to the West has some national characteristics.Some of the spaces in the stories of the journey to the West are intertextual.During the spreading and evolution of the stories of the past dynasties,the space is restated and deconstructed.Space is of super realistic significance.The author uses dreams to speak unspeakable words and space course to show the growth of heroes.Finally,he constructs a world of gods and demons that can reflect society.