The Narrative Inquiry Of Essays About Guangxi In Qing Dynasty

Yuexi have been a frightening area in inner Chinese eyes,and it meant ‘the remote' ‘the uncivilized' ‘be relegated'.The terrible environment,the unknown things,the fierce and barbarous folk tradition.All these built a horrible,mysterious and wondrous picture about Guangxi.However,the picture was a product of mixing facts and imagination.With the deeper and deeper development and government,the perceiving of taking Guangxi as a uncivilized ‘exotic' area has been changed.And it had been clear form misty imagination during the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.Well,the study of Yuexi essays which painted Guangxi is very view even though the essays are numerous.With the analyzing of three Yuexi essays----The account of the customs and cultures in Yuexi ? The record of travel in Yuexi ? the memories and experience in Yuexi,this paper analyzed what the writers saw and thought,even the subtle minds,and then restore the real and vivid picture of Guangxi in writers' eyes.This study can contribute to unscrambling the Yuexi essays and comprehending Guangxi.These essays are ancient books with no modern annotation and edition,therefore annotating ancients and intensive reading of the text are the main research methods and approaches.The historical background,writers' cultural background,the difference to Guangxi culture and the personal factors should be taken in thoughts during the analyzing.Especially,the prejudice and mistake in writers' moods and minds,the curiosity and different personal experience are the keys to the study.The essays contains messages in climate,geography,ancient buildings,gods,ghosts,folk customs,specialities,culture,education and public security,three writers build their own picture of Guangxi with these.Foregone fuzzy,mysterious and horrible Guangxi became clear and real.This paperfinds the the picture by deconstructing the essays,and the deconstruction means the reconstruction of picture about Guangxi.The conclusion is: the writers of Yuexi essays in Qing dynasty took the guest viewpoint to see Guangxi as curious strangers,together with the sense of being masters for their officers status.The narration is generally documentary,and the elements about gods and ghosts are getting less with time.With the basic objective attitudes,writers took their own experiences and moods into the essays and so different.The deconstruction itself means the reconstruction for the researcher's own personal subjectivity.