A Study On Image Of The Hu Monks In The Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was a large Sino-foreign cultural exchanges Time. In this period, all kinds of foreign religions have been developed on large scale. The Hu monks'arrival in China has become a beautiful landscape. With the gradual expansion of social influence, they are not only written into historical documents and religious books, but also into the vision of the novelists in Tang Dynasty as a creative theme. This thesis discusses the images of Hu monks in Tai Ping Guang Ji on the basis of Image Theory in comparative literature and gives interpretations with the help of the theory of folklore at the same time.Tai Ping Guang Ji which is valuable information to study the political, economic and cultural exchange brings together 42 stories of Hu monks at Tang Dynasty. At that time, the harmonious political and economic environment, profound religious civilization and promotion of the official dispatch drove the Hu monks'arrival in China Meanwhile,this active group also launched such high-profile activities as debates on the fighting technique, interference in affairs of state and mysterious art exhibitions; Given the richness and complexity of its author's identity, the paper will classify the images of Hu monks in Tai Ping Guang Ji into five types from the perspective of story typology. In the background that opening in Tang Dynasty is characterized of being both open and closed, images of Hu monks in Tai Ping Guang Ji faced the conflict fate between"being beautified"and"being vilified". Beautified images derive from the exchanges and integration between Chinese and Western cultures. Vilified images are the result of exclusion and struggles between the native culture and foreign culture.Through interpreting and reconstructing the images of Hu monks in the novel, we find that the author constructs the same exotic characters in different ways into two types of cultural images The images of Hu monks shaped in this ideological and utopian way hamper with each other without too much worship and distortion reflecting the cultural state of mind at the Tang Dynasty.