Pre-definite Views And Novel Creation In Tang Dynasty

Tang people believed that all the things are previous doomed,such as people’s behavior,death,meal,big and small matters and so on.This idea is manifested in all aspects of Tang people’s life practice,such as fame,wealth,fortune,life,death,marriage,and daily trifles,all of which are predefined.Specifically speaking,people’s merits and fames are predetermined,and the ways to obtain merits and fames are predetermined;wealth and wealth are predetermined,and the ways to obtain wealth are also predetermined;fortunes and misfortunes are predetermined before life and death,and the time to fulfill the predetermined fortunes and misfortunes is also predetermined,and fortunes and misfortunes are unavoidable;marriage predetermined,the fate of husband and wife is predetermined,the object of marriage is already predetermined,and the time of marriage is pre-determined and can be accurately predicted by warlocks.There is no necessary connection between talent and destiny.In the preconception,the clitoris dominates everything in the world,which is beyond the scope of human subjective ability,and human beings can not change it by virtue of their own strength.Man’s life and fortune are predetermined.No matter how smart and intelligent a man is,the predetermined results cannot be changed.Specifically,people’s actions do not change the pre-determined arrangements,sometimes contributing to the pre-determined results;the occurrence of events is doomed in the dark,and even the development process and results are doomed;the pre-determined destiny can not change,if the official movement and marriage change,it must be the underworld to change the pre-determined arrangements.Destiny is determined by heaven,can not be changed,and is not intellectually within reach,only happy heaven knows destiny.The pre-determined ideas of Tang people are inextricably linked with the concept of destiny,the theory of bearing responsibility and the thought of retribution for cause and effect.The Tang people inherited the predecessors’ views on destiny,absorbed the ideas of retribution for good and evil,and the reincarnation of cause and effect,and formed the pre-determined concept.Acknowledging that life is not determined by one’s own destiny,it is controlled by external forces,and the individual is unable to change,which is the place where the pre-Tang concept of destiny and the traditional concept of destiny come down in one continuous line.All the pre-determined contents of the world are recorded in the book of the underworld.The book of the underworld is made in advance by Tiancao and Tiancao prefectures.The fulfilled personnel are no different from the contents of the book.The book of the underworld will refer to the merits and demerits of previous generations.Everything in this life is cause and effect reincarnation and retribution,which is a strong proof of the influence of Buddhism and Taoism.The predestination of fate is only one of the ancient people’s views on life.If we want to know the number of fates,the role of manpower and the accidental factors objectively and rationally,we can’t ignore it.However,the predestination obliterates human’s subjective initiative to the greatest extent and regards all incidents as necessity,which is the cognitive limitation of this idea.But fame,wealth,marriage and longevity are what everyone craves.The Tang people also attach great importance to fame and position.However,the reality may not be as expected.It is probably a psychological comfort to attribute all encounters to the predefined theory.The prosperity of destiny fiction in Tang Dynasty has its realistic basis,which is the living condition of Tang people.Tang people’s imperial examination competition is cruel,fortune and misfortune can not be self-reliant,marriage and marriage attach importance to the portal,all kinds of life experience is difficult to understand,can not completely control their own situation.The reality of Tang people’s existence is easy to breed Tang people’s pre-determined ideas,and they can’t help believing in pre-determined ideas.Destiny fiction in Tang Dynasty propagated the pre-determined ideas of Tang people,but it was not a record of pre-determined events,but a novel in literary sense,and the author’s literary creation was intentionally directed by the pre-determined ideas.As a popular type of fiction in Tang Dynasty,predestination fiction provides a motif – predestination motif,and ‘prophecy – fulfillment’ is its fixed plot mode.The protagonist knows his fate number in advance through various ways,and then fulfills it one by one,which proves that predestination is beyond doubt.Usually,the protagonist learns the prophecy through divination,phantom,dreams,ghosts and gods.The prophecy becomes the outline of the story development and the logical clue of the plot of the novel.The content of the prophecy corresponds to the beginning and end of the result of the prophecy,and each plot unit is closely related,which makes the cause and effect of the novel correspond to each other.However,this causal relationship is illogical.Prophecies learned through phantom,divination and other means are forcibly linked with the hero’s experience.Once many unreasonable plots are placed in the framework of pre-determined ideas,there is no doubt of their rationality,which highlights the idea of predestination,strengthens the logic and credibility of the content of the novel,and the novel transforms the pre-determined ideas into reality.The narrative form of doctrine.