Researching On The Plague Descriptions In Ancient Chinese Fictions

Plagues are old and eternal topics of human beings. They not only exist in natural world, but also appear in ancient Chinese fictions. But there are little works researching on the plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions comprehensively and systematically up to now. The author tries to explore the many-faceted intentions of plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions focusing on ancient Chinese fictions and plagues in this thesis.In the history of plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions, the evolving track of plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions almost runs through the history of ancient Chinese fictions. It is a necessary part of the history of ancient Chinese fictions. In the natural view of plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions, plagues constitute the pedigree which has plentiful contents, many breeds and huge structure. In the literary view of plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions, plagues are elements as theme, background, main plot and minor plot while they are almost not absolute leading roles. The meanings of plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions are very plentiful. But there is rarely deep thinking explored in the plague descriptions. On the whole, the plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions appear that the quantity is large and the whole status is not high. There are few real plague fictions which take plagues as absolute leading actor and get deep into plagues to shock hearts in ancient China. This phenomenon is especially obvious compared with ancient West fictions.By analyzing the social life behind the plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions, the history and culture behind the social life, the spiritual peculiarity behind the history and culture, we can see that the cycling spiritual peculiarity is the intrinsic reason. A lot of plagues in objective social life and a series of subjective recognitions and measures appear in the plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions. The concept of harmony of the human and heaven in history and culture weakens the speculation about plagues themselves. The cycling spirit makes the contradictory opposites of large quantity and low status be united reasonably. The plague descriptions in ancient Chinese fictions reflect the pictures of ancient Chinese society, history, culture and the epic of ancient Chinese spiritual history.