The Research Of Sheng Xian Zhuan

The book Sheng Xian Zhuan has a total of eight volumes and fifty-six chapters.Signed with The owner of Yi Yunshi.The novel describes the story of the five men of Ji Xiaotang who lead apprentices to fight monsters and evils with strange ability during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.It aims to explain the concept of good and evil and to provide spiritual support for the citizens.Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties,it has not attracted the attention of scholars for various reasons.In fact,Sheng Xian Zhuan has a special status and role in the development and evolution of Chinese fairy novels.It promoted the fusion of fairy novels and fiction novels,and has a high reading value.The first chapter is the introduction.Through the source and background of the topic,the significance of the research,and the overview of the research status.The feasibility of the study of Sheng Xian Zhuan will be explained.As one of the top ten novels in ancient China,Sheng Xian Zhuan a certain influence in the history of novels and folklore.However,at present,there is little research on the book at home and abroad.Through the use of text analysis,comparative analysis and data statistics and other research methods.The research significance and value impact of the novel are clarified.The second chapter mainly studies and infers the author of the novel,the time and version of the book.Based on the text,we concluded from the novel about Beijing city gates,costumes,official names,temple fairs,northern dialects and other vocabulary with regional characteristics and inferred that the authors are very likely to be Pekingese in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.By analyzing the time nodes of the story events in the novel in history,and supplemented by the version of the textual evidence,it is inferred that the book-making period of Sheng Xian Zhuan should be after the Ming Dynasty Wanli,before the Qing Daoguang.The third chapter will discuss the thoughts and artistic features contained in the biography of Sheng Xian.The novel describes the struggle of the civic class,which is dominated by Ji Xiaotang,against the evil forces of the society,and conveys a clear concept of good and evil.At the same time,the novel reflects the value of the novel in folk culture by virtue of its unique charm in terms of plot content,character portrayal and language features.The owner of Yi Yunshi included many stories in the novel,and specifically painted the songs,Taoism,lyrics,etc.,depicting the real picture of the lives of the people in the Ming Dynasty and showing the secular features of the Ming Dynasty society.The fourth chapter will mainly analyze the influence and re-creation of Sheng Xian in the folk literature,drama,lamp painting,legend,and storytelling,and discuss the influence of novels on folk literature.Through the adaptation of many folk art works,the characters in Sheng Xian were widely spread.It draws on the material from folklore and promotes the spread of Ji Xiaotang’s story in the folk.The fifth chapter will focus on the comparative analysis of Sheng Xian and other novels,and explores the value of Sheng Xian in the history of Chinese fairy novels.As one of the top ten classical Chinese novels in China,Sheng Xian inherited the mainstream fairy novels such as Journey to the West and the Romance of the Gods in terms of themes,novel content,characters and themes.Its plot structure was also inherited by the Wizard of Oz.Through comparative analysis,Sheng Xian expresses the trend of combining fairy novels with heroic legends,social worlds,and broadens the creative field of fairy novels.The sixth chapter will mainly explain the literary influence and inadequacies of Sheng Xian,and gives the novel a reasonable value orientation.The book of Sheng Xian affects the chivalrous novels of later generations,and the creation of fairy novels also promotes the development of folk literature.However,in some narratives of some small stories,the author has fallen into the habit of literati’s use of old-fashioned plots,and lacken new ideas.In terms of ideological significance and artistic value,Sheng Xian also has shortcomings.