Words Of The Novel Style Patterns

During the developmental process of Chinese ancient fictions as long as 2000 years, a great number of fiction genres with featured system, structure, way of narrating and linguistic using came into being. Overall, we can say, a mutual influential has been achieved with successively occurring as well as the co-existence of note genre, marvel genre, story telling genre, chapter and section genre. Storytellers' scripts play an important role and exert great influence on the evolution of marvel genre, chapter and section genre during that process. As an individual research on the story telling genre, the paper separates the genre from all kinds of writing and observes it solely, giving a comprehensive combing of its process of originating, standing alone and developing, making a deeper research into the reason and regular pattern of its development in the angles of writers, writing methods as well as the refined and popular literature. Moreover, the paper also discusses the unique feature of story telling'genre among ancient fiction genres and mutual influence between it and other genres.The first chapter gives a deep inspecting and identifying of the word "huaben" 's original meaning in ancient documents and also the original calling of "storytellers' scripts" in the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty as well as the definition and modern development of the concept of storytellers' scripts. It is believed that, as genres' concept, "huaben" or "storytellers' scripts" is actually established and popularized in modern academic circle.The originating process of story telling genre, in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, is mainly discussed in the second chapter. During these dynasties, storytelling skill and its fiction have been developed into maturity and stereotype. As a result, storytellers' scripts came into being. It is also a consequence of the transformation from oral literary skill to written literary reading material. During the transformation, the performing stereotype and narrating method of oral literature have basically established the system of chapters and sections as well as the artistic constructing pattern, vesting the scripts' genre with distinctive attribute of oral and folk literature.The third chapter mainly concentrates on the process of literary genres' independence, including the drafting storytellers' scripts in the early Ming, works of "Sanyan" in the late Ming and "Erpai". A few writers' drafting storytellers' scripts appeared in the early Ming, whose genre was expressed as the features of initial writing down and scholarizing which symbolized the initial independence of storytelling genre. The features of writing down, standardizing and scholarizing of works in "Sanyan" which were written in the late Ming and in "Erpai " have helped forming a mature and stereotyped literary genre. Thesesuggested the thoroughly independence of storytellers' scripts' genre and exerted extensive social influence. Those features mainly originated from the writing down of writers' purport and their scholarizing.The fourth chapter emphasizes the developmental process of storytellers' scripts' genre during the late Ming, the early Qing, the mid and late term of Qing. Scholarizingand popularizing--two separate developing trend of storytellers' scripts' genre hadappeared. The separating originated in the refining and popularizing of writers and the different method of their two kinds of works. During shunzhi and kangxi in the early Qing, storytellers' scripts' genre became less scholarized while more popularized, suggesting the integration of the two genres. That development mainly originated in slower scholarizing of writers and quicker advancing of commercializing, entertaining as well as more progressing of the writing method. In the mid and late Qing from yongzheng to guangxu storytellers' scripts had made great break through towards traditional literary genres, literary genres began to vary. The variation is the result of the second scholarizing of writers.In the fifth chapter, we mainly discuss s...