A Study On Chinese Ming Dynasty False Biographical Works

As a special writing style, Fake biography has its unique artisticvalue. It includes many ancient Chinese allusions, which present a splendidliterature world for readers. The parody is both serious and facetious, which is afusion of parody of historical works and parody of humorous articles in the ancientChinese literature. In this way, the parody reconciles the gap between the seriousliterature and the humoristic literature, and it also contributes a new writing style tothe Chinese literature.The ancient Chinese fake biography can be dated back to Tang dynasty andgets development in Song and Yuan dynasty. Gradually, when it comes to the Mingdynasty, it reaches the peak of its development.The fake biography of Ming dynasty is the product of the most prosperous timein the history of Chinese fake biography. So it can fully embody the features ofChinese fake biography. The number of Ming’s fake biography is much more thanthat in Tang, Song and Yuan dynasty, and various kinds of fake biography occurduring this period of time. There are some abstract things and human organs andsome pay attention to the planetarium and natural environment.Part of the MingDynasty’s work have the tendency to be series. In content, the female imageincreases and fortune tellers occur in some works. Moreover, a person can write twofake biographies for one thing and the signed name of the comments can be changed.In formal, writings of two or more species together appears simultaneously topreach the Lord’s biography, and medicine name, flower’s name and CiQuPainames occur in the tittle of articles, as well as works of the chronicles and familyname.The fake biography of Ming dynasty is rich in content. Generally speaking, it includes three aspects. Firstly, it is the individual’s lyrical, including a beautifultribute to the spirit of quality, promoting a gentleman of virtue and showing positiveattitudes of pursuing fame and showing their personal emotions and so on.Secondly, it is to discuss political gains and losses, including the truth of being agentleman and the truth of being a minister. On the one hand, it criticizes the rulingclass, the fatuous rulers, the cruel officials, the base officials in feudal times. On theother hand, it praises the wise king. Thirdly, it is to reflect the social phenomenons,particularly to reflect the social and cultural trend, advocating Confucianism.When the fake biography of Tang and Song dynasty comes to the KoreanPeninsula, it flourishes. The development of Korean fake biography can be dividedinto two phases: Korai period and North Korea times. Fictionalization of the fakebiography includes the main family background information and life experiences,which contains Chinese background information and some Chinese allusions in thisrelative series of events and background conditions.During Ming Dynasty, the Korea has entered into the period of North Korea. Atthe same time, the fake biography of Tang and Song dynasty presents a differentkind of state and begins to develop towards another direction in Korea. Frist of all,the form is different and there is a breakthrough in the structure. For example, therehas been a long chapter in the back body style historical romance novels. Moreover,the object of parody changes. Things of parody increase. The attention is transferredfrom molding one person to mold the image of a group of many features and theattention is paid to human’s bodies. It is more likely to write some abstract things.In addition, the allusions decrease, and the plot and process need to be given moreattention. Thus, fake biography in Korea makes preparation for the biographicwriting style to become real novels.