A Study On Types Of Hexi Baojuan Stories

Baojuan is a kind of folk rap literature with the faith.It transmitted by word of mouth and paper-based media.This paper classifies the stories of Hexi Baojuan,which concludes these following story types:breaking an engagement stories,the man abandons his wife stories,the fairy marriage with humans stories,filial women story,filial man stories,the stepmother stories,the wicked mother-in-law stories and so on.These several story types which expound the narrative motif and summarize the narrative characteristics of the Hexi Baojuan.The first chapter of the paper analyzes the marriage stories and their narrative motifs,compares their similarities and differences,in the meanwhile,it explains the significance of common narrative motifs.The second chapter divides the filial piety stories into filial-women piety stories and filial-man piety stories of Hexi Baojuan,it not only analyzes of the similarities of the filial-women piety stories,but also focuses on the presentation of the filial piety stories' core motif.The third chapter delves into the evil woman and its narrative motif,emphasizes the function of its moral persuasion.The fourth chapter explains the the narrative pattern of good and evil of Hexi Baojuan,which elaborates the belief function of Hexi Baojuan.On the one hand,it reveals typical features of women images,on the other hand,discusses the regional characteristics of Hexi Baojuan.