Monks In The Jin And Tang Dynasties And The Development Of The Western Regions Of Chinese Literature

Buddhism was introduced into the central plains from India at the time of the two han dynasty,and it developed very rapidly in the wei,jin and southern and northern dynasties.During this period,the western monks of this period not only introduced the western region culture and the western region style to the central plains in various ways,but also caused the upsurge of the Chinese monks to seek law in the west.Monks went to the western regions and the jin tang period is central plains,India found by the method of peak,they swam fulfillment of the western regions,as far as India,south China sea area,leaving each precious western travel notes,to show the world the wonderful knowledge and western style,rich in the west to make up for the shortage of the generation of the western regions in history books recorded before.After zhangqian sailed to the western han dynasty,jin tang’s monk couple in the western regions,the central plains will dealings between China and the west cultural exchange pushed to new levels,further expanded the understanding of the western regions and understanding people,people have known the western geography category is also growing.Jin tang’s monk couple of knowledge but also affect the later western literature writing creation of the western regions in China on the literary creation of the writing space completed by myth to records to the transformation of literary,not only develop the geographic space of the writing of Chinese literature also greatly expand the imaginary space of the writing of Chinese literature.Based on the history and the record of the monk,this paper elaborates on the exploration of the writing space of Chinese literature in the western region.The first part is about the evolution of the cognition of the western region and the depiction of Chinese literature in the western region before the buddhist monks enter China.In the pre-qin period,the western regions of "mountain and sea classics","mutiaozi biography",are very strange and numerous,full of strong mythological colors.Zhang Xihan zhang qian to the han dynasty to the western regions through the "silk road",han set followers in the western regions are fu,the start and the western regions of communication,but the history of the western regions’ records are short of a single,mostly concentrated in the xinjiang region,a little farther develop.The second part elaborates the activities of the six monks and the travels of the western region.During the wei,jin and southern and northern dynasties,thebuddhist pilgrimage to the western region greatly promoted the development of Buddhism,stimulated the people’s yearning for the western buddhist countries,and promoted the craze of Chinese monks seeking law in the west.A large number of monks approached the western regions to further countries of India,the south China sea area and record XiHang Road stories,detailing the outside China humanities style,supplement the omissions of the north and south the history,also greatly broaden people’s horizons,compared with the former generation of mythology,history,travel notes from myth to records of the western regions,and that the six dynasties monks depicting geographic space and more wide,greatly expand the writing space of the Chinese literature of the western regions.The third part is a narrative of the west of the tang dynasty monk activity and its influence,mainly by xuan zang of the western region "datang and xuan zang disciple of the instant one of the" big temple monk biography of mage as an example,detailed xuan zang west experience as well as the various states.Compared with the previous generation,the content is more abundant,and xuanzang’s record is more detailed and the scope is larger,which also leads to the literature.The fourth part is a brief introduction activities and influence of much of the west jin tang’s monk in "journey to the west",for example,from the creation technique,creative motif and the experiences of the west three parts in this paper,the jin tang’s monk couple on Chinese literature of the writing space.