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Ming And Qing Imperial Examination And Fiction

Posted on:2011-03-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y C WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360305488232Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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The imperial examination and the novel common prosperity in the Ming and Qing Dynasties more than 500 years. The both had related closely in the novel author's writing. This not only displayed in the novel of the Ming and Qing Dynasties massive reflection imperial examination and the writer expresses the emotion of liking and hating which with the novel. It displayed in the in-depth creation thought of the novel author even more. The imperial examination system and society that was involving in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel had certain historical data value. It also urged the novel to form the stable plot pattern. The Eight-legged essay which was the main examination style and the novel mutual influence. The novel essential factor integrated the Eight-legged essay. The Eight-legged essay essential factor also integrated the structure and the issue document of the novel. It presented the game Eight-legged essay and the novel with the characteristic of the Eight-legged essay separately.The union research between the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination and novel, mainly stresses on the two aspects that was the influence from the imperial examination system itself and the main literary style to the novel. Simultaneously gave dual attention to the reciprocity, the complexity and the in-depth of the influence. Regarding it did not need to make a quality the evaluation. We only need base the novel text, embarks from the fact, picks up each aspect influence, and then explanate the general characters involving the imperial examination which in the clear novel exists.The paper composed by the introductory remarks, the main text and the conclusion. The introductory remarks summarize this thesis the research present situation mainly, Outline and limits the object of study, clear about the range of the study.The paper main text including eight chapters. The first chapter has carried on the investigation and statistics to the novel author's imperial examination experience and the status in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It can determined the close relation between the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination and the novel from that. It provides a foundation for the following seven chapter of elaboration. The novel author is the bridge relate the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination and the novel. They live in the society of the imperial examination. The majority walks the article humanity rosd of the studies, the industry, to be selected, to serve as an official. Their all lives nearly related with the imperial examination. It investigating and statisting the known novel author of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, relating to the concrete works, foreword, postscript and novel author's other literature works discover that, the relation between novel author and the imperial examination was reflecting to the many characteristics of the novel greatly. Their imperial examination experiences and the grade height were affecting the novel creation reason, the objective, the connotation and the tendency all. The different imperial examination status's novel author community and the novel type had also formed the relative stabilization the corresponding relationships. Many Ming and Qing Dynasties novel author simultaneously were also the Eight-legged essay author. This dual status let the imperial examination and the novel have the indissoluble bond. The novel author studied the Eight-legged essay long-term. They participated the imperial examination many times. The imperial examination brought the joyful after the success and the sorrow failing the examination. Regarding to the imperial examination, the novel author had the complex manner. Facing the more and more serious abuse about the imperial examination system and the Eight-legged essay, they accusated and creited it, even lost the joins in lifts industry the enthusiasm gradually. Facing the essential condition of realing the writer ideal and the imperial examination's actual utility, they must study and participate the examination, and gave the affirm and the praise to it. The complex manner that the novel author treatint to the imperial examination was the agent maaively which the Ming and Qing Dynastiy novel involing the examination. It also one of the reasons that the novel reflecting the imperial examination content numerously.The second chapter is resiting analyzes the partial imperial examination material which in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel involves. It mainly includes the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination in the child, the township, the meeting, the palace examination material implements in the process, and the content different from the imperial examination. The Ming and Qing Dynasties novel author were extremely familiar and liking to record the imperial examination system. All levels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination had performed in the novel. The novel author discussed the content of the imperial examination by the way of recording not necessarily according to historical data institution, principle and mechanized, and didn't record the imperial examination system according the actual rules, with expressing the manner to the imperial examination, or the needing for plot establishment. But, for the involved question of the imperial examination, they didn't fictionalize. It was helpful for us to understood the state of executing of the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination system. The imperial examination system which was involving in the novel were more real and detailed than the the documents. These contents were the reflection as the realistic had the action of suppling the historical data to a certain extent. It can be regard as the literature material definitely. The imperial examination was more or less the same in the Ming and Qing Dynaties. But they were different still. Especially under the ruling by the man nation in the Qing Dynasty, the imperial examination of the nation of the man and the han had the differences very many. The actual variance of the imperial examination had reflected in the novel between the Ming and Qing Dynasty, the nation of the man and the han, the rule and the implementation.The third chapter tests various kind of phenomena states of the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial examination society. The imperial examination is the main marking of the Ming and Qing Dynasties time. All the social psychology, the social usage, the social activity related closely with the imperial examination. The writer is the important social group. The imperial examination is the certer of the life. The imperial examination was the only way of choosing person. It had affected the writer profoundly. The imperial examination can change the status for writer. The writer diligently studies for taking the imperial examination. It was the biggest power for them to devoting the examination. The writer's life, thought, the point of view and the social activity all had the mark of the imperial examination. The education system of the Ming and Qing Dynasty constituted with the school, the private school and the academy mainly. They undertook respective professor duty separately. They suppleted mutually. But under the leadership of the imperial examination, they flew together gradually and move towardthe unification. They became the educational institution as the central of the imperial examination and the educational base which taking the examination. The teaching material had changed with appearing the phenomenon. The books of the Eight-legged essay were popurlation, but the Confucian classics and the history ancient books which the writer should studing. Even it became the only teaching text. The general mood of the society in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were also affected by the imperial examination. It was made the imperial examination as the center to the marital idea, the social custom, the writer assembly and the games. It presented all kinds of posture about the society of the imperial examination. All these displayed must for bright in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel.The fourth chapter establishes two case analyses. The novel of the Ming and Qing Dynasties that having the closely relation with the imperial examination were many. We can understand and grasp easily the relation between the imperial examination and the Eight-legged essay and the novel, by throughing and discussing the concretd works. It can have the concrete impression for human, and avoid the elaborating the broad malpractice. At the same time, the case analysis can also play the role which carries on the task in the paper. It make a concrete reference for the synthesis elaboration about the imperial examination and the novel. It can also provide the foundation for researching and discussing about the Eight-legge eaasy and the novel.The fifth chapter elaborates the influence from the novel to the eight-legged essay emphatically. The eight-legged essay is the important literary style in the imperial examination in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The union research of the Eight-legged essay and the novel can not limit merely the manner about the Eight-legged essay for the novel author. They influented and seep mutually in the stylistically, and had formed the new characteristic on the literary style separately. Along unpopularity, the novel were read and accepted widely by the writer. Some Eight-legged essay author no longer constantly follew the legitimate. They were writing with the manner of the playing. They put the novel's essential factors and the writing technique for exampor the narrative way, the language, the character and so on, to comprehense the Eight-legged essay. They expressed the the original intention of the game by the literary style of the Eight-legged essay. They made it forming the fictioniaing game Eight-legged essay.The sixth chapter discuss the influence from the eight-legged essay to the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel on the angle of literary style. The Ming and Qing Dynasties novel author study Eight-legged essay long-term. It had formed the Eight-legged essay-like inertia thought. When they steping in the novel domain, the Eight-legged essay writing technique and the inertia thought had also integrated the novel creation between unintentional. The eight-legged essay is fastidious regarding topic italy, grasps the master line, the stock layout tightly. The novel author also seep the structure consciousness of the Eight-legged essay when creating. And they taking the Eight-legged essay as the novel, put the language of the Eight-legged essay as the novel language. They even imitated the Eight-legged essay to explain the Confucianist classics, dicusse the way of writing Eight-legged essay and use the terminology. They connected the Eight-legge essay essential factor and the novel literary style with the multiple perspectived and the diversifical unify. They made the novel had bright Eight-legged essay characteristic in the structure and the language.The seventh chapter tests the influence on the Neo-Confucianism primary intention from the eight-legged essay to the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel. Neo-Confucianism was the Eight-legged essay primary intention request. It was also the numerous novel author's cultural orientation. Neo-Confucianism completely obvioused in the novel, when the novel author profiting from the Eight-legged essay writing technique to carry on the creation. It made the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel became a literary style of explaining the Confucian manages as the Eight-legged essay under many situations. The Neo-Confucianism of the Eight-legged essay had the change in different times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Neo-Confucianism consciousness of the novel author and content of the novel also had the change with the influencing. In addition, in many situations, the Neo-Confucianism in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel displayed by the character, the event and the lagnuage which relating to the imperial examination. The color of the Neo-Confucianism in the novel are inseparable with the imperial and the Eight-legged essay.The eighth chapter analyzes the critically punctuates model of the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel to the eight-legged essay mainly. The Ming and Qing Dynasties novel had not formed the special and complete theory system of the appraisal. But, the novel theory can be see all kinds of the novel critically punctuates. The novel critically punctuated had often borrowed the Eight-legged essay theory and critically punctuates the theory. Many Ming and Qing Dynasties writers step in the novel critically punctuate, and formed a community. In the process of the critically punctucates, they used the ready-made Eight-legged essay and critically punctuates theory. These theories after transformating by the novel author, it not only had the function of the critically punctuate, but also instruted the writing. The way of critically punctuate on the novel was same with the Eight-legged essay. The different way stressed different content on the critically punctuates. In the style of the critically punctuates, the critically punctuating borrew the issue pattern of the Eight-legged essay. They even treat the critically punctuates as the Eight-legged essay, and made the novel's critically punctuates had the style and the characteristic of the Eight-legged essay strongly. Borrowing corretate theories of the Eight-legged essay criticint the novel had the limitation though, it enriched the novel critically punctuate truly. The novel theory also had obtained the consummation from it.The conclusion has carried on macroscopically from the whole the dissertation to the question that the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel were affecting by the imperial examination, and promulgates one which of reasons prosperous of the Ming and Qing Dynasties novel and the formal of the general characteristic based on the main text theory. The union between the imperial examination and the important literary style and the novel not only manifested in various kind of the representation characteristic, manifested in the novel author's creation thought. because of the novel author's dependent psychology on the imperial examination, their creation thought had formed the inertia gradually. The inertia thought can stable the stratification of the novel in deeper on a certain function. It also promoted the prosperous of the novel in the Ming and Qing Dynasties simultaneously to a certain extent.
Keywords/Search Tags:imperial examination, novel, the Eight-legged essay, the society of the imperial examination, literary style, critically punctuate
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