The Study Of Legends Before The Tang Dynasty

This paper focuses on the study object based on the Han and Wei and Six Dynasties literature books and records saved in the legends before the Tang Dynasty, divided into seven chapters. The types of the legends before the Tang Dynasty are analyzed in the first four chapters, and the legends before the Tang Dynasty are probed further theoretically from the narrative, communication and value in the last three chapters.Referring to the traditional classification way in the academic fields, combined with the general characteristics of the legends before the Tang Dynasty, this paper divides the legends before the Tang Dynasty into heroes and outstanding figures, legendary figures, myths and religious figures, secular figures and local scenery legends. When discussing the various legends, we combined the overall analysis and case studies. After analyzing and discussing each of legends generally, we find the most representative legend cases; its evolution and the cultural significance included and make a detailed interpretation. The paper discusses Jie Zitui legend, Lao Zi legend, Mount Tai legend, Hong legend, etc.Hero and outstanding figures legends discussed the emperors, famous ministers and officials, literary men, craftsmen, famous doctors, celebrities, assassins and other characters legends. King legends are about the emperors' birth and morphology, reflecting the king's anecdotal reminiscences, representing emperors studying immortality legend, etc. The legends of famous ministers and officials who established the illustrious deeds, not only demonstrated their chivalry, but also desolate ending after the pacification of the world and the memory and admiration of public on them; scholars legends are about the major life anecdotes of the famous writers, and through these legends we portray their ideas, likes and dislikes, and political stance under specific historical conditions, reflecting the image of ideal scholars from the public's hearts;craftsmen and famous doctors legends mainly demonstrated their superb skills; empresses and the celebrities are women, but in the folklore the empress- es and celebrities legends are completely different, because the former mainly reflects their robes and misfortune, and harem life, and the latter represents more about the celebrities, talents and virtues;as a special group in the history of China, assassins legends before the Tang Dynasty mainly represent their faithfulness and sincerity as well as heavy price paid to realize their promises.Myths and religious figures legends discussed the mythical legends, Taoism figure legends and the Buddhist legends. Mythical figures such as the Yellow Emperor, Fu Xi, the Western Queen, etc. There are two distinctive features about their legends, namely, mythological figures historized and mythological figures angel zed and Taoism zed. In addition to immortalized mythological figures, there are mainly the immortalized historical figures and the priests, so Taoists legends include the Taoism figures and Taoist legends in Taoism classics. Buddhism figures legends reflect the two aspects, namely, the profound illusion of Buddhism arts and propaganda of Buddhism instructions.Secular figures discussed marriage class figure legends, Xiaoyi class figures legends and other secular figures legends. Marriage class figures legends before the Tang Dynasty, in addition to marriage legends between men and women world, the more are between all males and female immortals, ghosts, banshees. In these legends the fairies, ghost girls and vamps that fell in love with men, have common characteristics of females but their own personalities, which show in a certain historical period, the common feeling of the public in them also carries secular men and women's good wishes in a specific historical period. During the Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin periods, society putting emphasis on filial piety in this period is the main reason for filial legends popularizing. However, filial legends mainly show self-sacrifice spirits of filial pieties and "Heaven and Man" thinking. In addition, the paper also briefly discussed those intelligent, courageous secular figures legends such as Li Bing, Li Ji, etc. and also the many variants legends among the folklore are discussed.Local scenery legends discussed the local legends, animals and plants producing legends, folk legends, and legends of natural phenomena. Local scenery legends reflect the Chinese people's imagination and interpretation living in the land of China of all the rivers and the mountains around them, animal and plant products, natural phenomena and some civil customs in their life and in the rich imagination and interpretation there exist their ideas, emotional orientation and the yearning for a better life and criticism of the dark politics. We can say that the magic and beautiful local scenery legends before of Tang Dynast are a projection screen of all people's real life in this historical period, having profound historical and cultural meaning.The legends before the Tang Dynasty in the documents in Han and Six Dynasties are mainly recorded and preserved in the form of sketches. Notes novels as the original narrative texts of ancient Chinese literatures, have had a profound impact on future narrative literatures; at the same time, as a kind of folk literature legend, also demonstrated the special modes of transmission different from other literary styles; In addition, legend also has a very important value. Therefore, the paper probes the legends before the Tang Dynasty theoretically from the narrative, communication, value, etc.The study of the narrative of the Legends before the Tang Dynasty discussed their narrative styles, narrative stance and narrative plots. The paper probed their narrative mode from the narrative time, narrative perspective and narrative structure. Narrative time of the legends before the Tang Dynasty is complex, mainly showing the following several different forms, that is coherent narrative time, disordered narrative time, illusory narrative time, exaggerated narrative time, dilute narrative time, etc. The exploration of the legends before the Tang Dynasty from narrative point of view is mainly from the omniscient narration, limited knowledge narrative and purely objective narrative; their narrative structure is divided into surface structure and deep structure. The deep structure of narrative is through the fictional history characters and historical events in the historical period, the general ideas and a tendency of emotions of people. This determines the legend of this period to have shallow narrative structures:fictional stories from the public were widely documented by literary historians, and therefore their emphasis is on notepad. There are three main areas about the narrative position, namely, the position of civil discourse, the official discourse and religious discourse position; the study of narrative plot types of them is mainly from the myth-based type, religious type, legend type, secular type, etc. The acceptance and evolution of them are discussed from the modes of transmission, receiving and evolution. As oral literature, the initial transmission of the legends is mainly by people's mouth and heart, spreading throughout the folklore. Later, as scholars meddled, the legends in folklore were collected, fixed with a text written in the form of the text preserved. In addition, there are many legends in the form of paintings or drawings carved in the rock wall have been passed down. This shows that the transmission way of the legends has undergone a development process from people's mouths to the written records and saved pictures. In terms of the acceptance of the legends, it is mainly in civil and scholars, whose main means are official history records, songs sung, scholars'collection, collation and ode, etc. The spread and acceptance of any legends are carried out in the evolving process of the legends; therefore, we must refer to the spread and evolution of the legends, that is the evolution issue. Evolution of any legends have their features in geographical area from local to national, in plot contents from simple to complex but there are many reasons, the public, processing and transformation, the impact of foreign culture, the change of times, and the will of those in power.The value of the legends before the Tang Dynasty discussed history, folklore, ideas, literary, value, etc. the historical value has the following aspects:First, providing important historical data for the study of some historical figures that period; Second, an important written proof material for archaeological discovery; Finally, reproducing the living conditions of all sectors of society from various aspects in the Han and Wei six Dynasties. The value of the customs not only played a role in promoting its spread, but folk legends of this period demonstrated folk customs to the world fully. In ideological value, we mainly discussed the Confucian thoughts' influence on the contents of the legends, followed by the influence of Buddhism and Taoism. The literary value mainly lies in providing a material with its rich contents for future literature creation; a reference with its unique artistry; its original view of life affecting aesthetic orientation.In short, the legends before the Tang Dynasty is a comprehensive reflection of the living conditions of the public this historical period, which are the most direct and most profound expression of their ideas and emotional attitudes. We can say that they are living fossil of thoughts and emotions of the people during this period. Thus, both literature searching and theoretical explanation will have a profound impact on the study of the legends before the Tang Dynasty.