On The Text Changing Of The Myth Of "Chang'E Flies To The Moon"

In the early time of 20th century, the study of the myth of Chang'E Flies to the Moon was set great store by textual research and sorting out of the data. From 1980s, the study was continued its sorting out the data and was given preference endow with a new multifaceted explanation and the myth of Chang'E Flies to the Moon was analysed with a broad metaphor way. E.g. the analysis from the argument of mythical remodeling combing to the criticism of its original model; the metaphor analysis from life and dead view, from scientific research of natural phenomena, from religion; the multifaceted explanation from feminism, cultural anthropology, civilization, philology and religion. During this period of time, the study was developed in Poetry of Tang Dynasty, novels of Ming and Qing Dynasty, remodeling of modern fiction and comparative literature of Chinese and Western. So, the study arouses many topics to textual research of text, metaphor analysis, researching in literary style. For instance, the topic of the mythical remodeling supporting by the original model theory, the narrative of woman abandoning man in the thought of feminism; the religious topic of Daoism; the primitive culture's establishing topic of the Chang'E's image in the background of the culture of moon, laurel and toad. This thesis does a systematic reach to the changing of the text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon in a different way.The thesis categorizes and sorts out the text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon first, and points out that the text of Chang'E Flying to the Moon is more important and should be paid more attention to it than other texts of Chang'E Flies to the Moon which are quoted by other scholars. The text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon is different according to recording literature and times . The text of Chang'E Flies to the moon recorded in different times mainly preserved in ten works of Gui Zang, The Book of Master Huainan, Ling Xian, Records of Spirits, Selections, The Book of Houhan, Records of Beginning to Learn, Records of Isolation, Tai Ping Yulan and Shuo Fu . The text about fragmentary record , flexible using and individual elements of dissimilation of Chang'e flying to the moon mainly preserved in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Chu Ci, Autobiography of Empire Mu, Lv Shi Chun Qiu, Analects , Bo Wu Zhi, the Story of Hanwu, Autobiography of Empire Hanwu, Bao Pu Zi, the Records of the Fairy , Ni Tian Wen , Poetry of the Tang Dynasty and Ci of the Song Dynasty, Miscellaneous Records of You Yang, Journey to the West , Flowers in the Mirror, Strange Tales of the Tale-Telling Studio, Flying to the Moon, Hou Yi etc.. The text of Chang'e flying to the moon experienced the fusing of the myth of Queen from the West, the myth of Xihe and the myth of moon, and influenced by the changing of the three myths, underwent the process of from brief to complication, from primitive sorcery to Daoism myth and to the change of literary reading. By the reaching of using of Chang'E Flies to the Moon in the artistic mode of portrait of Han Dynasty, brass mirror of Tang, Song, Liao and Jin Dynasty, the national paintings of Ming and Qing Dynastry, thethesis makes clear the deep relationship between the changing of the text and its spreading carrier property and times background.Basing on the result of categorizing and sorts out the text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon, the thesis sums up the changing laws of the text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon regularly, and groups the changing process of the text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon into four periods, that is the period of its image, story, aesthetic appreciation and remodeling. And the periods correspond to the time before Han Dynasty, from Han Dynasty to Jin Dynasty, Tang, Song, Liao and Jin Dynasty and the time before Ming and Qing Dynasty respectively. The typical literatures are The Classic of Mountains and Seas , Gui Zang in the period of image, The Book of Master Huainan and Ling Xian in the period of story, Miscellaneous Records of You Yang in the period of aesthetic appreciation, Shuo Fu in the period of remodeling. The changing laws of the text of Chang'E Flies to the Moon are centered on the elixir, changing to the other dissimilation from month to the middle of the month. There are three reasons caused the text changing laws of Chang'E Flies to the Moon, one is the property of the literature decided the text changing of Chang'E flies to the Moon; the second is the text changing accorded to the changing of human ideal; the last is the different historical cultural form restrained the text changing of Chang'E Flies to the Moon.