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The Evolution And Cultural Connotation Of Emperor Sui Yang’s Story

Posted on:2014-07-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1265330425983494Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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Chinese Emperors were known for wise ruler, tyrant, or fatuous and self-indulgent ruler, there is no shortage of literature on their stories. Emperor Sui Yang’s stories because of its age continuity, stylistic diversity and rich in content, had become a tyrant in the typical story of literary interpretation. Until today, people still talk about the story. Emperor Sui Yang was a notorious emperor in ancient China. In the ancient emperors, he was given the posthumous title "Yang". He is the ancient typical tyrant who was cited as a counterexample. The poetry, drama, novels about Emperor Sui Yang are very colorful, and has a profound impact in history of Chinese literature. Emperor Sui Yang’s stories can be mainly seen in the History of Sui Dynasty, History of Bei Dynasty, Mirror of Universal History, and so on. Sui Dynasty over a long time feudal separation of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, established a unified and wealthy country. Emperor Sui Yang ascended the throne, and adopted a series of measures to consolidate political power, economic, military, diplomatic and so on having further development. However, he died for maltreating people, which was legendary. Sui and Tang dynasties, the story and legend had appeared on Emperor Sui Yang. Since the History of Sui Dynasty, scholar-bureaucrats took more attention to the destruction of Sui dynasty, and learned to reflect on the theory of the governance of the country. Emperor Sui Yang’s extravagant life was showed in the unofficial history and novels. Emperor Sui Yang’s story is the history of the evolution of literary interpretation of the history, legends integration process. Combing the context of Emperor Sui Yang’s story, we can be not only able to grasp the story changes at different times of the plot, characters change, but also able to observe cultural background of some social thought refracted from the evolution of the Emperor Sui Yung’s stories.The paper utilizes the method of the Chinese narrative culture. Based on in the collecting texts Emperor’s stories, concern the evolution of four culture themes, and analyze the law of the evolution about Emperor Sui Yung’s stories and the social background, mind changes. The paper consists of seven parts:Introduction mainly describes research objects, research methods, research status exposition, based on a clear scope of the research and research methods, try to reveal this innovations.Chapter one is the literature review. According to the age, coding Emperor Sui Yung’s literature materials, which is divided four parts:the Sui and Tang dynasty, Song and Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty. The main text of Emperor Sui Yang’s story, the version and the basic content are outlined in the chapter, which seeks to Emperor Yang story in the distribution of ages, genre style, and so do the whole main plot contemplation.Chapter two is the evolution of tyrant political theme about the story of Emperor Sui Yang, and reveals political theme’evolving situation and social cultural context. Emperor Sui Yang has been defined as "tyrant" in the end of Sui Dynasty peasant uprising and his tyranny acts mainly as bullying God and people. From the summary of "the mirror of Sui Dynasty ", the literature gave a rational and objective reflection on Emperor Sui Yang’s political gains and losses in Tang Dynasty, narrative relatively; Song and Yuan Dynasties, increase the ingredients of literary fiction, focusing on the emotional criticism; In Ming and Qing dynasties, tyrant political stories were great quantity. Based on previous generation’stories, Emperor Sui Yang was exaggerated to become a typical tyrant.The chapter three is about love story between Emperor Sui Yang and his concubines, and comb imperial concubines love story of evolution and the evolution of characters, from a cultural point of view and analyze their evolution and causes. Sui and Tang dynasties, love story is a smaller proportion of Emperor Sui Yang’ stories series in, mainly being interpretation of the history, literary fewer ingredients; Song and Yuan Dynasties, love story is popular. Not only built a large harem for the Yang Emperor, but also create a number of vivid characters, and the most prominent feature is the love story with a clear Aesthetic Trend of citizens; Ming and Qing dynasties, love story was further distortions. In the new aesthetic Perspective, Emperor Sui Yang’s harem showed very different style from the previous generation, and Emperor from a bold vision is distorted as "pervert" or a romantic emperor.The chapter four analyzes the story of the Emperor’s talent. Emperor Sui Yang is not only a tyrant, but also is a well-known poet. Ancient stories of Emperor Sui Yang also show his talent. Sui and Tang dynasties, under the influence of the wit complex,Emperor was portrayed a literary image, reflecting the literati aesthetic; Song and Yuan Dynasties, the story was more affected by citizen culture, and Emperor’s talent was only limited to dissolutet range, with increasing the legendary and interesting of the works; Ming and Qing Dynasties, Emperor’s talent was deliberately ignored, and became a mediocre Emperor.Chapter five discusses the mysterious story of the Emperor. Emperor Sui Yang’s stories have many dreams, physiognomy, representing gas, astrology, nursery rhymes and other issues involving the mysterious prophecy cultural content. The rulers strengthen deterrence and ambitious politicians prepared public opinion for the regime change with these mysterious means. Sui and Tang Dynasties’mystery stories primarily helped Emperor Sui Yang and Emperor Gao Zu ascended the throne by the metoposcopy. In Song and Yuan Dynasties, Emperor Sui Yang was further demonized by dreams, such as monster haunting; In Qing Dynasty, the stories were concentrated the outcome of Emperor’death, and his ultimate destination.The conclusion part mainly analyze the evolving situation about the story. In addition to, decrypted and analyzed the other types of stories except the four themes, revealed political theme and social cultural context.
Keywords/Search Tags:Emperor Sui Yang’s stories, tyrant political theme, love stories, talentedEmperor, mysterious culture
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