Brief Studies On Unreliable Strange Record

In the Tang Legend history, Unreliable Strange Record is a characteristic collection wrote by Niu Sengru. On the one hand, it inherited the tradition of strange novels since the Pre-Qin time, modeled the themes and narrative plots; On the other hand, it also had the Tang legend"gorgeous language, tactful narrative","intended for the novel"characteristics. In view of the fact that the senior first have maked the source and course edition or the one-sided researches, overall researches on Unreliable Strange Record are very few, therefore the present paper research is quite valuable. The author cares for the foundation which the predecessor studies, first discuss the story type Unreliable Strange Record obtains, then makes a thoroughly and comprehensive research to its content and the artistic features, fairly and objective.The present paper will divide into four parts, namely introduction part and three main text chapters.First is the introduction, in the introduction will make a research summary to Unreliable Strange Record and initially seeks the source or origin to the strange novels of the Wei and the Six Dynasties.The First chapter makes a story classification to Unreliable Strange Record, namely the deity, the ghosts and gods, the demons; makes some introduction analyses to each kind of representative story.The Second chapter makes more thorough discussions of the non- real world content. Concrete said, the first section talks about the deity world, there are sections below the sections, includes the happiness of the deity world, the difficultly to be a deity, Taoist priest's excellent magic arts; Second section talks about the destiny, the realization of the dreams, netherworld controls people's lives, the ghosts forecast events, events occur before people knows, retribution and samsara; the third section"different races and person's relations"discussed four kinds of relations: The repayment, the relations by marriage, the demon injure someone, eliminate demon. The Third chapter talks about artistic features of Unreliable Strange Record, also divided into four sections, namely"intends for the novel","to narrate exquisitely","the human sentiment of the gods and ghosts","the insert of poems"and so on.