On The Study Of Narrative Art Of The Martial Chapters In "History By Zuo Qiuming"

"History by Zuo Qiuming" is a monument in the history of literature in our country. Its narrative art is canonized by lots of scholars, and it is praised as a narrative type. Its pith of the narrative art is presented in the martial chapters.The structure of the martial chapters in "History by Zuo Qiuming" is not only integrated, but also variational. In order to make the structure more integrating, it narrates the martial chapters consisting of the cause, the process and the ending. And a clue about victory and defeat runs through the martial chapter from the starting to the ending. The narrative of campaigns in "History by Zuo Qiuming" makes use of foreshadowing in the structure. Every structure of the descriptions of the battle is not alike.The author paid attention to arrange the time. The plots of story are arranged in a time order on the whole, but at times they are presented in a aforehand narration, flashback, narration interposed or supplementary narration way. As for the arrangement for the time limit, the outset and outcome are often detailed and the process of the battle is short.The author narrated the war in the way of describing novel. In order to promote the development of the stories, he depicted the details making the atmosphere of the battle more leisurely, A lot of plots which are described circuitously are added in the martial chapters, and the parts of plots are cooked up.The battle are narrated in the angle of view of the third person spectator. In this kind of angle of view, the relator is at liberty to choose and structure material for the chapters. On the other hand, as a spectator, he only depict the words and the actions instead of psychology of the characters. There is a kind of angle of view from the dramatis personae in some paragraphs. Angle of view from the author is in the narration, and it is presented by remark, words of characters and inclinations of contrastive description.These pioneer accomplishments of the narrative art of the martial chapters surely exert profound influence on the posterior literature inditement.