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The Rheology Of The East Slope Of The Story And Its Cultural Implication

Posted on:2010-02-09Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360302957737Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Su Shi is a distinguished scholar in the Song Dynasty, and his life was both full of ups and downs and colorful, so he was much concerned by future generations. Dong-po story, based on Su Shi's name, life and experience, was endless, various, and of diverse styles through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties until modern society. These stories were deep cultural memory about Su Shi as a cultural giant in the cultural history, but to some extent belonged to it s time and people who created and appreciate them, because future generations behind Dong-po often implanted their way of thinking, the environment into the story, and gave them a new look with new fun while reconstructing and remodeling Dong-po image. Precisely because of this, the story can survive in the precipitation of history and the natural selection of and culture, and in the seemingly constant repetition accumulated even more profound cultural connotation of Chinese culture, and became an indispensable symbol of the significance. In the thesis, I use the cultural narrative methods developed from thematics in the fullest possession of the relevant material to Dong-po story, try to analyze preliminary social and cultural characteristics in different times with the view of ideological culture, institutional culture, political culture and commercial culture and mass entertainment.Su Shi's in history was of rich literati who had the inherent unity. Mode of his life even embodied the most typical pattern of Chinese cultural character. He entered political stratum when he was young, and won reputation in China. Firstly, he was an outspoken minister with an awe-inspiring strength of character. He had courage to tell the truth, made tremendous political achievements, took the world as his own responsibility, firstly worried about all over the world and lastly enjoyed. Secondly, he was also an elegant scholar full of poetry and alertness. He was adept in understanging the sensitive artistic beauty from the daily life with the nature of humor and ridicule. Thirdly, he was a thinker experiencing political ups and downs. He had experienced strife between the party and even life and death among the wandering back and forth, but also had an extremely profound understanding of the desert air of the life. In a word, Su Shi expressed the harmony with the unique concept of life by his own experience, thinking, poetry and opened up a new personality paradigm in the spiritual world, which was yearned and respected by future scholars.Dong-po story in scholar culture surrounded such topic as entering or not political stratum, living a poor or rich life, moral strength of character, day-to-day aesthetic, closely related to scholars. Dong-po story in history almost contained problems faced by most of the scholars, but also cast into choice and thinking by people of different ages and circumstances. In the Song Dynasty, literaties who had the relief for the world often seek to identify courage to tell the truth, loyalty to fill the bone marrow, as well as moral strength to work hard and play public distress by the Dong-po story. In the Yuan Dynasty, the story was overflowing suffer of relegation, sadness of gloomy, as well as poor airstream of the prodigal son. In the Ming Dynasty, the story was paid attention to freedom of entering and leaving political stratum, and enjoying the elegance downtown. In the Qing Dynasty, the story was organized and researched by scholars, and it's style was simple to earth. At the same time, literati elegance of ridicule at feast, poem-liquor-tea-stone and desire for vanity fair of beautiful women singing and dancing, or Dong-po Meat and wine all reflected the tone of time in Dong-po story of propagation and reconstruction.Vis-a-vis Dong-po story in scholar culture, it was rich in pop culture. The growth of material wealth, the prosperity of commerce and trade, urban economic development, and emergence of public entertainment provided the freedom of space and the tension from the public imagination for the development of multi-cultural landscape. In the marketplace, Dong-po was described as a typical representative of the high officials who was d demoted, showing of poverty and solitude of frustrated scholars in the drama, or as a long-tongued and meddlesome neighbor, or as reincarnated monk who indulged in singing and dancing, high position and generous salary, and great wealth, at last understood his past and future, ultimately had a religious heart and practiced, or as the eldest brother of Su Xiao-mei, a talented woman, he became a mask figure of personality-type. Dong-po story in pop culture expressed the insight, sympathy or ridicule of the people into groups of literaties. As an entertainment legend, Dong-po story had character of being vulgarized and carnivalizated while was full of fun, noise and atmosphere of the marketplace.Dong-po story has a tenacious life, which is endless and dynamic. Su Shi's individual life was gone, but the story of imagining Dong-po was deeply engraved on the cultural memory about him. People in different ages to multiple they era emotion, style and practices with diverse ways into the reconstruction of the story, in order to express views, think, amuse, which injected live stream into the story. Up until today, from generation to generation, with layers of sediment, and the more and the longer, Dong-po story has become a rare cultural treasures in Chinese traditional culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Dong-po story, Su Shi, scholar culture, pop culture
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