A Study Of "Travels To The South" And "Traveling To The North"

Yu xiangDou wrote and published <The journey to the South> and <The journey to the North>. It is the labor and mind demanding work. Yu xiangDou focused on the two novels protagonist selection, story background arrangement, the novel character’s recreation, the speed about the story’s arrangement, and the internal ideological content etc. He has conducted many considerations. The two stories were both took place in Buddhism, Taoism, Demons and Ghost’s world in the two story, the protagonist came from a member of the Buddhism or Taoism. The whole story is mostly began in the protagonist ’s “false belief” and ended with the hero “reformed”. The story’s teller, the character ’s figure pieces continuously stitching, and thoughts of the characters rise up back to its original state.Because of the special historical background of the Ming Dynasty. The early Ming rulers control in the political, cultural, economic and other aspects rather strict. Control of the superior dignitaries, bottom of the people are the same rigorous. In the late Ming Dynasty, as the time passed, the rulers ’s control became relatively loose than before. The expansion of the citizen class, and the increasing cultural consumption demand become strong, that all provided a good creation condition for the mythical novels creation. All of those factors made The mythical novel creation achievements reached the highest level and impacted the future generation’s mythical novel creation <Beifangzhenwuzushi Xuantianshangdi Chushenzhizhuan> and <WuxianlingguandadiHuaguangtianwangzhuan>, which were created and printed by Yu xiangDou who lived in the end of Ming dynasty, were the products of the times.In this paper, starting from the two works. Focus on the analysis of the two works,such as the purpose of creation, the creation mode of thought, connotation among the novels, the shaping form of the characters and the ending of the story arrangement, then discussing the features of his novels creation, and evaluate its influence. At last make appropriate literary position evaluation of the two works on history.