A Study On The Gratitude Stories In The Wei-jin And Southern And Northern Dynasties Strange Stories

In the period of Wei,Jin,Southern and Northern Dynasties,the story of repaying the favor was an important story type of the fantasy novels,which reflected the religious belief,social and cultural customs,and moral and ethical appeals of the people at that time.By means of literature review,text interpretation and interdisciplinary analysis,this paper makes a research on the background,story types,cultural connotation,artistic expression and literary influence of the stories of repaying kindness in the strange and strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.The stories of gratitude in the strange and strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties did not come out of nothing.They came into being under the influence of multiple factors,such as accepting the thought of gratitude of the previous generation and inheriting the earlier works of gratitude and the background of The Times.The Confucianist thought of "benevolence" as an upper-class culture and the Mohist thought of "universal love",which speaks for small producers,have a guiding effect on the writing of the story of "recompense".At the same time,the thought of "ruling the world with filial piety" in the Han Dynasty made it a topic of general concern in the society to try our best to repay parents for their upbringing.In addition,compared with the stories of the pre-Qin and Han dynasties,the stories of the recompensions in the legends of the Wei,Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties show the characteristics of inheritance and new changes.Its inheritance is mainly reflected in the inheritance of the theme of "having a family" and "friendship" in The Book of Songs,as well as the story patterns of "having a meal to repay the kindness" and "having blood relatives to repay the kindness" in historical biographical literature works such as Zuo Zhuan and Shi Ji.The new changes are mainly reflected in the expansion of the subjects and methods of the Wei and Jin novelists to repay the kindness,making a large number of stories such as "animals repay the kindness" and "reporting the kindness of burial".At the same time,the idea of "karma" and "son inherits father’s favor" was often found in the strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties,which was related to the flourishing social situation of Buddhism and Taoism in the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.There are a large number of stories of gratitude in the strange and strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.According to the different subjects of the stories,they can be divided into three types: stories of animals,stories of ghosts and gods and stories of ordinary people.Among them,there are three types of animal gratuitous stories: reciprocating with things,mourning for the mother or revenge,and saving the life of the benefactor.The story includes three kinds: the graciousness of burial,the graciousness of sacrifice and the graciousness of a meal.There are three kinds of stories about people’s kindness: setting up monuments and temples,reporting filial son to relatives and rewarding property.In the analysis of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties in the strange stories of the types of gratitude story,interspersed with the analysis of folk psychology,the current situation of The Times,religious activities and other content.The stories about animals,ghosts and gods in the strange and strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties are related to the animal totem worship and god belief in the early period.In the story,dragons and snakes bring rain and gather wealth,as well as the mythical writing that the turtle can divine divination and predict flood,are the continuation of people’s worship of animal totem.In addition,the stories of recompensions of kindness in the legends of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties also extended the subject of recompensions to ghosts and gods,showing people’s belief in gods.When analyzing the totem worship and god belief,this paper expounds the totem worship and god belief contained in the stories of reparation of kindness in the strange and strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties from the aspects of ancient myths,witchcraft activities,folklore and the concept of life and death.The stories of gratitude in the strange and strange novels of the Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties are rich in themes and varied in types.However,if we study the texts,we can find that no matter what kind of themes and types of gratitude stories,they all have a relatively stable creation mode,namely,the rough and concise narrative language.The combination of absurdity and reality of the plot and the causality narrative logic of good and evil being rewarded.In addition,the development of literary works cannot be separated from the achievements of the predecessors,and the literature of gratitude is no exception.In the stories of recompensing kindness in the legends of Wei,Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties,the modes of requesting burial of the dead,recompensing kindness with the names of the dead,and recompensing kindness with animals have had an important influence on the later literature,and become the theme of imitation and innovation in the later literature.