Study On Narrative Aesthetics Of Qiang Oral Literature

Qiang is an ancient ethnic group."qiang" appeared in the oracle bone inscriptions of the shang dynasty at the earliest.In this paper,the qiang ethnic group refers to the people who migrated to the upper reaches of the minjiang river from the spring and autumn period and the warring states period to survive and reproduce,and communicated and integrated with the local people.The research object of this paper is the oral literature text of the qiang nationality,using the theory of narratology in literary theory,including classical narratology,post-classical narratology and the research method of Chinese narratology.With the text as the carrier,this paper explores the literary,aesthetic and cultural significance behind the text and further clarifies the unique ethnic charm of the qiang people.Protect and inherit national culture and enhance national identity on the basis of understanding.Oral literature is a kind of living literature,which changes with the development of social history.The study of oral literature involves much knowledge of folklore,society and anthropology.Due to lack of academic ability,oral literature activities and ritual performances in oral literature are not included in the research scope.Oral literature mainly refers to the literary form of oral creation,oral communication and inheritance,which is the most important part of qiang literature.Oral literature has deep social soil and mass foundation in the qiang people.Qiang oral literature is rich in content,broad in subject matter and diverse in genre.Its major influences include myths and legends,folk stories,epic poems,folk songs and proverbs.It is mainly spread in the southeast of aba Tibetan and qiang autonomous prefecture in the northwest of sichuan province where qiang people live,namely MAO county,wenchuan county and li county on the upper reaches of minjiang river and its tributaries,beichuan county,songpan county,heishui county and jiuzhaigou county in aba prefecture.The emergence and dissemination of the oral literature of the qiang people are related to all aspects of the qiang people's life.In the activities of sacrifice,marriage,harvest,building houses and moving into new houses,the qiang people would sing and dance,sing their folk songs and tell the stories of the qiang people.The ancient qiang literature has been passed down from generation to generation.Mr.Fei xiaotong calls the qiang as "a nation that transfusions blood".The oral literature of the qiang is an important part of the qiang literature,which enriches the content of the Chinese national literature.Overview of this chapter:The introduction introduces the research methods and research summary.The main research method of this paper is narrative theory in literary theory.This paper mainly introduces the research achievements of qiang oral literature.It is divided into three parts.The first part introduces the research results of cultural orientation of qiang oral literature.The second part is literature research review,the third part is the communication research review.The first chapter is divided into three sections.The first section briefly describes the creation period,development sequence and staging,reliability and historical status of qiang oral literature.The second section summarizes the contents of oral literature of the qiang people.The third section analyzes the religious color in the qiang oral literature.The second chapter takes the Qiang oral folk tale text "Hairy Dog Essence" as an example,analyzes the text of the feather fairy type story characteristics.The first section briefly introduces the source of feather fairy type story,the main plot,the development of variation.The second subsection analyzes the narrative environment and narrator in the story.Story construction and character image shaping can not be separated from the environment,the Qiang people have lived in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River Environment for generations,providing space for the story to occur and develop.Symbolic space setting is an important narrative strategy.From the storyline setting,it is inferred that the narrator is a woman.The third section focuses on the analysis of "Mao Dog Essence" story character characteristics,the dog was once an important helper in the history of human development,Qiang Feather fairy story in the dog as the object.Mao is a combination of dog and man,a unique narrative of appearance,rich in semantics.Reflects the existence of ancient dog totem worship in the Qiang nationality.In addition to its unique physical features,Mao also has active character characteristics.The story takes women as the main plot driving force,reflecting the Qiang people's desire to dominate their own destiny.The storyline twists and turns,the open end,the nonlinear storyline,is the narrator's revolt to the traditional narrative order,implies the narrator sympathizes with the female encounter emotion tendency.The female encounter in the story of "Hairy Dog Essence" is a footnote to the low social status of women in the patriarchal society,and the narrator leaves an imaginary space at the end to make this folk tale more tension and infectious.The third chapter focuses on the analysis of the qiang oral literature classic "wooden sister pearl and burning beeva".The first section introduces the outline of the story and analyzes the characteristics of the test marriage based on the understanding of the content.The second section continues to explore the love between man and god in the text.The third section analyzes the surface narrative structure and the deep narrative structure of the text.The theme of the surface narrative structure of the text is that god dominates man's fate,while the deep structure shows that man's ability is superior to god's ability.It shows the qiang people's strong desire to conquer nature and dominate the destiny of human beings.The fourth chapter studies the future of qiang oral literature from the perspective of narrative,mainly discusses the current situation and future development of qiang oral literature.The oral literature of the qiang ethnic group contains abundant ethnic cultural factors,and the study of the oral literature of the qiang ethnic group plays an important role in the inheritance and development of the qiang culture.However,we are also distressed to see that the oral literature activities of the qiang people are gradually shrinking,and the narrators and narrative environment of oral literature are changing and facing the dilemma of losing their inheritance.To protect the oral literature of the qiang people is to protect the qiang culture as well as the Chinese culture.