Several Notes About The Life Of Yue Fei

The Historical novel (classified by Lu Xun) The Life of Yue Fei, influences nearly all the Chinese nation and all the Chinese people. It popularizes the Southern Song Dynasty's history, just as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms's function on Eastern Han Dynasty. However, not only academic circles but also readers have so many misunderstandings about this novel, which are not rigorous. That's not decided to connoisseurship level or persisted what literature theory. We need to focuses on detail to solve textual research especially when we are not clear about the circulation age of this book, the native place of the author, the time of the public edition and so on. Embarks from this angle, my strength is solving these problems diligently.PartⅠ: Edition ChangesIn this part,I will enumerate some articles about Yue Fei,such as The Life of Yue Fei,the Revive of Song Dynasty,Yue Wu-Mu ling Zhong Bao Guo Zhuan (《岳武穆精忠报国传》),Yue Wu-mu Jing Zhong Zhuan (《岳武穆精忠传》)and Jing Zhong Lu (《精忠录》), analyze these five novels'edition situation and the rule of taboo. My emphasis is on analyzing the edition of Jin-Chun Yang(锦春堂) and deduce it is published in Dao-Guang period.PartⅡ: Study on the Age of the Novel be writtenThe Life of Yue Fei quotes some storytellings, whitch can be treated as the basis of this novel's age be written. This article finds some record and narrate in the Tales of Flying Dragon and the Notes of Ting-Yu Xuan (《听兩轩笔记》), and these storytellings were all written during Qian-Long period. That is to say, this novel was written in Qian-Long period.PartⅢ: The Evolution of Yue Fei Theme in Popular LiteratureList some popular literatures from Southern Song Dynasty till now. The emphasis is distinguishing some popular literature's specific author and it's evolution, correcting some common mistakens, but not the discussing on specific subject. I will point out that the subject matter of Yue Fei is a process of fabricate because of this subject has moral and political meaning. The process is the novel evolving one of the most representative novels from many related novels.PartⅣ: Study on Hua-Che(华车)(Iron) Hua-Che (华车) is a chariot the author Qian Cai of The Life of Yue Fei used to describe which was like Chong-Che(华车) and Zhuang-Che(撞车). In history, however, this chariot's function is not as the novel's description. As for other samely subject novels, such as Peking opera Tiao Hua-Che (挑滑车) and some novels pictures, not only the designation, but also the picture is wrong. My article will expound Hua-Che (华车) from the origin and development of the terms, the record of history books and so on. Also, I will explain the word Hua-Che's (华车) origin and its shape, by doing this, I hope I can correct the misrepresentation about Hua-Che (滑车) in Peking opera and novel picture.PartⅤ: Composite Textual Criticism on Eight ObjectsI will list eight objects: scarf, sleeveless, griped sleeve, Hai-Qing (海青), streamed bun, vinegar ink, Zan-Zhi(拶指) and almanac (通书). Meanwhile, I will bring these objects to light from the history of ancient ande modern, inspect these words' development, analyze these words' actual meaning.PartⅥ: Debates Doubts on The Life of Yue FeiThere are three usual points about The Life of Yue Fei, such as: the author of The Life of Yue Fei is a Lower level writer; there are so many differences between the first part and the last part; this novel's predecessor is not the Revive of Song Dynasty. On these points, I will use the novel's contents. In my opinion, Qian Cai was a storyteller, Jin Feng is a bookseller, their cultural standard was low indoubtly. There are reasons about the differences between the novel's first and last part. The influnce that the novel the Revive of Song Dynasty on The Life of Yue Fei is very little, and Qian Cai even had never seen the novel the Revive of Song Dynasty. At the same time, I point out that The Life of Yue Fei has Qian Cai master copy and now copy two conceptions in the first time.