Historical Reality And Foreign Imagination:A Study On The Foreign Writing Of"Natural Science Record"

This article takes the foreign writings in "Natural Science Record" as the research object,starting from the related entries of " Natural Science Record ",introduces its basic literature,and classifies the foreign subjects in it.As a masterpiece of the mature period of geography and natural wonder novels," Natural Science Record " has a wide variety of entries related to foreign,including mountain and river geography,rare animals and plants,strange anomalies,religious jurisprudence,and many other aspects,including the true "Western Regions" in history,there are also imaginary constructions of unknown foreign land,not all written in reality,nor completely fictitious,but mixed.Therefore,through the study of the geographical narrative,aesthetic tendency,and ideological implications in the writing of "Natural History",we can also get a glimpse of many aspects of the Wei-Jin Geographical Natural History Novel.The first chapter mainly introduces the author and document situation of " Natural Science Record ",mainly including three aspects.Through the introduction of the author Zhang Hua,the creation and circulation of " Natural Science Record " and the sources of materials of " Natural Science Record " and combing to achieve a general grasp of " Natural Science Record " in the writing situation,and provide basic materials for further research on the categories of foreign materials and analysis of the ideological connotation contained therein.The second chapter mainly classifies the foreign subject matter of " Natural Science Record ",including the real foreign countries and historical facts in history,such as Zhang Qian’s mission to the Western Regions,Huo Qubing’s Northern Expedition,and other real Western Regions stories;it also includes rich foreign imagination themes,such as the foreigners in distant countries and their strange customs,the tracing of the history of the emperor’s ethnic settlement abroad,the exile of criminal officials in the wilderness,the fantasy of the fairy world,the holy mountain and the fairyland and the fairy family in the fairyland,etc.,through this This kind of intuitive classification can have a clear understanding of the foreign materials in " Natural Science Record ",which is conducive to the further analysis of the text.The main content of the third chapter is the introduction to the geographical narratives in the writing of " Natural Science Record ".By comparing with the previous generations of geographical documents and the novel works of geography natural history,it analyzes the geographical narrative of the " Natural Science Record " about the writings outside the territory.Features,improvements and limitations in structure and content.The fourth chapter mainly introduces the aesthetic tendency of " Natural Science Record" foreign writing.On the one hand,it is manifested in its "natural history" characteristics,and is mainly manifested in the aesthetic tendency of taking Bo for beauty,including the large number of foreign materials,the mixed type of foreign materials,And the vastness of the narrative of the extraterritorial space;on the other hand,it is manifested in the aesthetic tendency of "the strangeness as beauty" as a ghost novel,which mainly includes the author’s own bizarre and heterogeneous thinking about the extraterritorial world and the peculiar content of the foreign writing object itself.The fifth chapter introduces the ideological implications of the writing of " Natural Science Record ".It contains not only the ancient witchcraft thoughts,but also the integration of Taoist thoughts,and the expression of life consciousness under the background of social turmoil and the liberation of thoughts.The desire to break through the limits of life and the eternal pursuit of life.