Woodblock Printing Media And The Transformation Of Popular Literature In Ming Dynasty

The progress of science and technology in each era inevitably leads to the corresponding development and change of media.With the development of media technology,not only the way people feel and the way of life have changed,but also the media as an intermediary force has a fundamental impact on literature.The relationship between medium and literature is complemented by each other.The printing technique was known as one of the four great inventions of the ancient Chinese,and when the engraving was made,it was not a landmark document.However,after the Sui Dynasty,Tang Dynasty,Five Dynasties,Song and Yuan Dynasties,engraving printing technology as the mainstream media in the Ming Dynasty,its technology has reached its peak.Similarly,the vigorous development of popular literature in the Ming Dynasty brought Chinese literature into an unprecedented new period.Undoubtedly,the promotion of woodblock printing media has exerted an extremely important influence on the spread and development of popular literature.This paper makes a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the relationship between the popularization of woodblock printing media and popular literature in Ming Dynasty by using the theory of communication and taking woodblock printing media as the key.The whole article is composed of introduction,text and conclusion.The main body is divided into four chapters:The first chapter is about woodblock printing,the favorite of the media in Ming Dynasty.Through sorting out the three stages of woodblock printing technology from its emergence and development to its prosperity and comparing the characteristics of woodblock printing,movable type printing and codex transmission,this paper analyzes the reasons why movable type printing technology still occupies the mainstream of the printing market in the long media history after the Song Dynasty,even though movable type printing appeared in the Song Dynasty.The purpose of this paper is to explain the different characteristics of engraving in different stages and its relationship with popular literature from Sui Dynasty,Tang Dynasty,Five Dynasties,Song and Yuan Dynasties to Ming Dynasty.The second chapter is about the preference of oral communication to written communication: popular literature in Ming Dynasty under the media of woodblock printing.Under the promotion of woodblock printing media,popular literature in Ming Dynasty was transmitted from oral to written form.In contrast to the different characteristics of the colloquial literature in the time of delivery and written communication,the new changes in the promotion and promotion of the engraving medium of the Ming Dynasty were reflected in the two forms of opera-Dynasty drama and novel in Ming Dynasty respectively.The third chapter is about the medium of woodblock printing and the change of literature: the economic effect of popular literature in Ming Dynasty and the change of language.Through the analysis of the commercialization of popular literature,life,common to illustrate the influence of the popular literature of the Ming Dynasty in the engraving printing technology,the literary creation by the upper level,give priority to with will and lyrical,elegant romantic into literary creation by the lower level,give priority to in order to pursuit of economic interests and to cater to public interest;from classical Chinese creation,streamlining as the main task to colloquial English,length is increasing;from the internal vicissitudes of the ruling class to the reflection of the life and resistance of the lower class,thus enriching the connotation of popular literature.The chapter four is about the competition and monopoly of new media: the impact and dilemma of popular literature on mainstream literature in Ming Dynasty under the influence of woodblock printing.Through the promotion of woodblock printing media,the thoughts,feelings and psychological appeals of the lower class can be reflected.Moreover,it has formed a certain impact on the mainstream culture,broken the monopoly of high literature on the literary world and its predicament,presented the transformation of the media form,and stimulated the development of social culture.Every revolution of communication technology not only brings about the change of communication form,but also the significant change of communicator's psychology and the corresponding change of social culture.Communication technology and social culture are in an interactive relationship.