A Study On The Hotel In The Novels Of Tang Dynasty

The Tang people's travel life was extremely rich.As far as the literati were concerned,their life had to go through the process of studying,imperial examination,official advancement,transferring,being relegated,traveling,seclusion,etc,drifting outside was the normal life of the Tang literati.In addition to literati,martyrdom,business traveller,and people all had more or less travel life.In ancient times,the traffic was inconvenient,and people must travel to a hostel or a post house to get a supply of accommodation.The establishment of the Tang Dynasty's posthouse and hotel and the development of the hotel industry provided the necessary material conditions for the Tang people to travel.The official and imperial examination system provided a continuous source of motivation for Tang Wenren's travel.Together,these factors had spawned the story of the hotel in the Tang Dynasty novels.According to the theme of the story of the hotel,it could be divided into four categories:official trip,imperial examination,love story and legal case.From the perspective of narratology,the story of the hotel often used the "residence building-encounter coupling-take care of reality" as the writing mode of the plot structure,forming a relatively fixed writing routine.This writing mode can help readers to enter the vivid literary scene,and also reflects that the "Cassett Adventure" is the cultural imagination and psychological reconstruction of the Tang literati in a short-lived living environment under different circumstances.From the perspective of geographical space,the protagonist of the story was used as a reference,and the story of the hotel presented a distinct regional character.The Liangjing Road were close to the political center.The protagonists in the story of the hotel were mostly official or examinee.The gathering of literati groups presented a “centralized group flow”with strong political color;Huainan Road and Jiangnan Road in the middle and late Tang Dynasty rised and prosperity reflected the close relationship between the rise and fall of the dynasty and economic development,population movements and the living conditions of literati.The transportation mode of boat trips and the image of ghosts and gods showed their regional characteristics;Shannan and Lingnan Road became the road of shackles,leaving Many literati and literati were in the same position;Jiannan Road had a special geographical position and was closely related to politics.There were many figures of prime ministers in the story of the hotel.At the same time,its rich social and economic conditions had also attracted a large number of scribes to travel here.From the perspective of scene space,the scene space of "hotel" also had a certain literary function.It assumed a certain literary role and could change the relationship between characters and change the mood of the characters,so that the characters could be more full and able to the story was continually deepened through the use of swearing and nighttime mechanisms.