ZhiWenLu Research

ZhiWenLu is an classic collection of short ancient stories, appeared in middle term Qing dynasty,singed"YongNeJuShi". It was published several times during the reign of Jiaqing and Daoguang, proved its influence and translation. However, some corruption about author and version information exist during the spreading process, which bring some difficulties to the research. In recent years, ZhiWenLu has stepped into the view of researchers gradually, but there lack of an overall research as a whole. So, this paper aims at studying it comprehensively and thoroughly.In this paper, chapter one is author and version research. First, try to get a clearer understanding about the author by integrating the previous research results. I looked for related information deep inside of his works, and studied author’s visits friendship circumstances. Then, unscramble the existing editions of ZhiWenLu, aims at finding out the relationship between them.Chapter two, chapter three and chapter four place extra emphasis on the text study. YongNeJuShi said he written ZhiWenLu when he was ill, in order to kill time and make himself more happy. But, his purpose of writing is not simply for entertainment. He inherited the Utilitarian Literary Concept from traditional Confucian, the ideological indoctrination run through his works.ZhiWenLu clearly expresses the theme "advice to be good and penalize the vicious", and explain in many ways. The second chapter is original story research. At first, discuss the inheritance and development of themes by comparing with the previous works. Then, investigate the reasons of its similarity with the later works. Chapter three is the study about ideological contents, aims at studying author’s writing features as a aides and staff. This chapter includes three aspects:spur on literati and officials; worship of literati and the gentry; describe the colorful ethnic customs. The last chapter is the study about artistic characteristics; include the sense of exhortations; characters and linguistic features.Finally, based on the above study, it comes to a comparatively objective evaluation on YongNeJuShi and his ZhiWenLu and a confirmation of the book’s due status in literary history.