A Comparative Study Of ?The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms? And ?Storytelling Of The Three Kingdoms?

?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms?(hereinafter referred to as ?Storytelling?)Published in reign of the Yuan Dynasty and?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?(hereinafter referred to as?romance?)wrote by Luo Guanzhong at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty are the two most complete and successful literary works that record the stories of the Three Kingdoms.The former is the key link of the latter.Due to the difference between the creator and the receiver,the two works are quite different in character shaping,plot setting,cultural connotation,aesthetic style,etc.,which is worth a comprehensive and detailed comparative study.On the basis of academic achievements,this paper will make in-depth comparative study on the plot structure,character image shaping,cultural connotation,aesthetic characteristics of the two works,so as to re-examine and evaluate ?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms?and have a new understanding of?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?.The paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter: discusses the origin of the story of the Three Kingdoms and the evolution of the division and integration.The origin of the story of the three kingdoms is the social life of the late Han Dynasty and the three kingdoms period.Special figures and important events were selected by Chen shou-ling into the?History of Three Kingdoms?,become official history.After Pei Songzhi supplement notes,and large-scale expansion,and finally to Sima Guang's?History as a Mirror?integration,integration of Pei into the text,then become a complete and recognized official history of the text.Among them,not into the history of biography,some through people's word became a popular legend.This is the same source of diversion for the history and legend of the two levels.In the process,Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms added the three kingdoms story,which already contains popular legends,as the first communication between the two levels.After the official history the?History of Three Kingdoms?,was written,some of its contents were taken as a structural frame by those who like the stories of the three kingdoms.This is the second exchange between the two levels.After a long history from the Wei and Jin dynasties to the song and Yuan Dynasties,the stories of the three kingdoms created by the Literati and popular legends have a long history and have been enriched and developed gradually until the birth of the?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms?,which became the synthesizer of the stories of the three kingdoms in popular legends,it is also a masterpiece of two levels,mainly based on popular legends.To the ?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?came out,but also returned to the history,history as the main collection of legends of a higher level of great works.This is another spiral of communication and convergence between the two levels.The second chapter: The origin of the plot and the comparison of similarities and differences.First of all,this paper traces the relationship between the plot of ?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms?,the?History of Three Kingdoms? and Pei's notes,and makes a detailed list of the relationship between the two,and compares the plot design differences of many famous stories.Then,it compares and discusses the different characteristics between the?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms? and Historical Biographies.Finally,taking six famous stories of the Three Kingdoms as an example,the author compares the similarities and differences between?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms?and?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?The third chapter: compare the differences in the characterization between?storytelling? and?romance?.This chapter takes the images of Liu,Guan,Zhang and Zhuge Liang of Shuhan group,Cao Cao of Cao Wei Group and Zhou Yu of Sun Wu group as examples,and compares the similarities and differences of characters between ?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms?and?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?.Before that,the comparative study of them was mostly based on the ?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?,which absorbed the content of the characters in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.Most of the viewpoints praised the characters in the ?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?for being more vivid and plump,while belittling the characters in the?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms? was simple and crude.From another perspective,the author tries to further study the similarities and differences in the characterization of the two works.At the same time,it also compares the related contents with the records of the?History of Three Kingdoms?,and reevaluates the ideological and personality characteristics and artistic gains and losses of the same characters in different texts,so as to make a new and reasonable analysis of the important characters in the ?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms? Evaluation.The fourth chapter: compares and discusses the cultural meaning of ?Storytelling of the Three Kingdoms? and?Popular romance of the Three Kingdoms?.From the perspective of the relationship between the people and the state,both of them are carrying forward the idea of patriotism and love for the people.The difference between them is that ?storytelling?is the first theory of loving the people,which puts the love of the people ahead of the content of patriotism and all the social contents;the?romance?is the first to serve the country and the second to settle the people.From the beginning of the work,we can see the cultural meaning of the two: ?storytelling? begins with karma,expressing a moral ideal of criticizing tyrant,praising wise monarch and punishing evil and promoting good;?romance?begins with the idea of "heaven and man's induction",warning the world with heaven's will,leading to the Yellow turban Uprising,and tracing back the causes of chaos;?The romance of the Three Kingdoms?comment by Mao on starts with the theory of historical cycle to explain social division the phenomenon and law of harmony.From the end of the work,this paper discusses the cultural meaning of the work:?storytelling? changed the historical facts,expressed a kind of pleasure of revenge and the ideal desire of reviving the Han Dynasty in disguise with Liu Yuan reviving the Han Dynasty as the end;?romance? follows the historical facts,and through Si ma domination of the state,it embodies the ideal desire of unity,monarch wise,Minister virtuous.Chapter five: compare and discuss the aesthetic characteristics of ?storytelling? and ?romance?.From the perspective of aesthetic color,?storytelling?is mainly composed of comic beauty,which means that there is sadness in happiness;?romance?is mainly composed of tragic beauty,which means that there is joy in sadness.Both of?storytelling? and ?romance? pursue the beauty of strangeness,which is the same;the difference between them lies in that: ?romance?Romance contains the truth in the strangeness,and is constrained by the truth and rationality in the pursuit of the peculiar beauty of the plot;?storytelling? pursues the beauty of Superman,the beauty of deification,and the joy in the strange beauty.In terms of the nature of beauty,because?storytelling?originates from speech and is an art of hearing,while?romance? is a kind of reading and visual art,which determines the difference between the two groups' aesthetic requirements.?storytelling?dominates the beauty of simplicity,but there are details in the rough and elegance in the vulgar;?romance?dominates the beauty of elegance dominates;but there are also details in the rough and elegance in the vulgar.