A Research Of A Miscellany Of The Western Capital

A Miscellany of the Western Capital is a comparatively earlier novel in existence which records the documents in Western Han Dynasty.Many historical data preserved in it are very important to study the hidtory of Western Han Dynasty. It has bright characteristics in organization, characterization, language utilization and so on.It has the very tremendous influence to the later generation works and has the important status in the history of liturature. The predecessors have many comments on A Miscellany of the Western Capital which always only slightly refers to one aspect, have not inspected comprehensively. In addition,there are many disputes about the author and the value of A Miscellany of the Western Capital.Therefore, this is a topic which is worth a deep research.This thesis, named A Research of A Miscellany of the Western Capital, mainly obtains from the following four aspects:First ,the author of A Miscellany of the Western Capital .At first, analyze the several major opinions formed until now and then analyze the opposing opinions of the major opinions above. Finally, combine the clearing-up of the old opinions and form the opinions about the author of A Miscellany of the Western Capital.Second, the editions of A Miscellany of the Western Capital. The editions of A Miscellany of the Western Capital are numerous.This thesis highlights the changing course of the editions of A Miscellany of the Western Capital through an analysis and a carding to three different editions.Third, the content and historical data value of A Miscellany of the Western Capital.At first,make a multianalysis of A Miscellany of the Western Capital discoursing in the fllowing aspects: the lives of emperors,the pendragons and perdanas,the literators and Confucian missionaries, and the fantastic stories. Next,summarize the literary value of A Miscellany of the Western Capital through the contrast of the content of A Miscellany of the Western Capital and the history records. Finally,analyze the historical data value of A Miscellany of the Western Capital though historical,literary and artistic aspects.Forth, the artistic features of A Miscellany of the Western Capital. A Miscellany of the Western Capital is terse and forceful and its language is delicate,meaningful and humorous.Its description is exquisite,which portrayed the characters'disposition variously.This thesis analyzes its artistic features from the following three aspects:the organization, the characterization and the language.This thesis has collected together the opinions about the author of A Miscellany of the Western Capital quite comprehensively.There are five kinds of main opinions and some old opposing opinions.This thesis clears up and analyzes these old opinions and insists that all kinds of old opinions except Ge Hong's The Postscript of A Miscellany of the Western Capital are challenges to Ge Hong's postscript.However, their evidences are not enough to overthrow Ge Hong's postscript. Therefore, in line with the realistic manner, this thesis still maintains the earliest view which is proposed in the Ge Hong's postscript :Liu Xin in Western Han Dynasty wrote it and Ge Hong in Eastern Jin Dynasty arranged. Although this thesis dose not propose a new opinion, it makes its contribution though clearing up the old opinions.This thesis contrasts the content of A Miscellany of the Western Capital with Shih Chi, Han History one by one and summarizes the content of A Miscellany of the Western Capital which are more exhaustive than the history book, which are not seen in the history book and which are different from the history book.This thesis also analyzes compactly the various historical data value of A Miscellany of the Western Capital.