The Study Of Dongfan Cai's Historical Novel Of The Late Han Dynasty

Dongfan Cai 's popular Historical novel of dynasties in Chinese history is a huge work corresponding to The Twenty-Four Histories. It concerns the history of Western Han Dynasty and Eastern Han Dynasty, the history of Western Jin Dynasty and Eastern Jin Dynasty, the history of Southern Dynasties and Northern Dynasties, the history of Tang Dynasty, the history of Five Dynasties ,the history of Song Dynasty, the history of Yuan Dynasty, the history of Ming Dynasty, the history of Qing Dynasty and the history of the Republic of China. On the basis of Historical Novel of the Late Han dynasty, the thesis tries to analyze the author's purpose and differences between the works and other historical novels in Ming Dynasty or Qing Dynasty. The thesis further explores the value of the series of historical novels in selecting material and characteristics of narration.Historical Novel of the Late Han dynasty has his peculiarity compared with History of the Three Kingdoms and The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The author mainly selected material from the orthodox histories to anecdotes. These anecdotes also had other proofs. The novel's annotations imitated the methods of Tong Jian Kao Yi on selecting historical material and had many popular brief notes. These methods made the novel come to the result of admitting good material from the orthodox histories to anecdotes and combining history with literature. We can know Dongfan Cai's moral, knowledge, talent on history embodied in the series of novels by Historical Novel of the Late Han Dynasty.