The Study On The Stories Of Seeking Relatives In Popular Novels And Operas In The Ming And Qing Dynasties

"Thousands of miles seeking relatives" is a very common type in traditional filial piety stories,carrying the Chinese nation's unique family ethics and social moral awareness.At present,the academic research mainly focuses on the arrangement and analysis of historical materials,and the discussion of this type of story in literary works is relatively scattered and one-sided.Taking popular novels and operas of Ming and Qing dynasties as research objects,the author discusses the writing and expression of the story of "ten thousand li seeking relatives" in order to make readers have a more complete and clear understanding of the story evolution,narrative mode and ideological connotation of kinship seeking literature in Ming and Qing dynasties.The introduction mainly consists of three parts.The first part explains the connotation of "ten thousand li seeking relatives" by referring to the academic research results and combining with the research object of this subject.The second part summarizes the status quo of the study of the story of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" in popular novels and operas of the Ming and Qing dynasties: looking at the history from the perspective of history,the biographies of filial piety recorded in the local records of ten thousand li.Probe into this kind of filial piety model in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a kind of cultural practice;Or in the analysis of a single piece of work on the "thousands of miles to find relatives" story a little discussion.Overall,there is a lack of special and systematic research on the story of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" in popular novels and operas of Ming and Qing dynasties.Probe into the third part The research value of this paper is discussed.The main body consists of three chapters,which are as follows:The first chapter mainly discusses the source of the story of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" in popular novels and operas of Ming and Qing dynasties.The stories of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" in popular novels and operas of the Ming and Qing dynasties are basically of reference,some are historical facts recorded in the local records,and some are folk legends familiar to the common people.When the author adapts the story of "ten thousand li seeking relatives",due to the difference of creative intention,there are four ways to deal with the material,such as retelling,supplement,deletion and integration.The second chapter mainly discusses the narrative mode of the story of "ten thousand li seeking relatives".Although based on different literature materials,the stories of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" in popular novels and operas of Ming and Qing dynasties have relatively fixed narrative patterns,which can be summarized as: separation-search-reunion.From "lost" to "reunited",a complete reappearance of the different life conditions of the departed,the seeker and the wretched.The separation of parents and children is the beginning of the story of "seeking relatives in thousands of miles",and its rich connotation provides a broad context and complex implication for the development of the plot.The journey of seeking relatives and suffering is the core link in the narrative of the story,because it is not only a necessary course to test the will of filial piety,but also a reality.Now the passage of hope for parents and children to meet.And "reunion" here contains two meanings: if their parents are still alive,they will return to the end of their lives;if their parents have died,they will be buried in their hometowns.Although there is no lack of regret,they can finally comfort the dead in the sky.The third chapter mainly analyzes the ideological connotation of the story of "ten thousand li seeking relatives".On the one hand,the story of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" carries the beautiful imagination of ordinary people about filial piety to their wives and children,family reunion,and life stability,and connects individuals,families and society through traditional ethics.It shows the moral consciousness rooted in the national traditional culture and the relief of the spiritual suffering.On the other hand,the story of "thousands of miles seeking relatives" mainly conveys the positive connotation and function of "filial piety" to readers,but through some piecemeal descriptions,we can see the moral dilemmas faced by the story,such as the discord between loyalty and filial piety.The contradictions within filial piety and the recognition of filial piety seeking by individuals The difference,etc.This shows that the implementation of filial piety in daily life may lead to more complex situations.