The Traditional Values And Narrative Strategies Of Ancient Chinese Enlightenment Stories

During the long history of China’s development,there are a large number of documents and works containing the sages’ cultural knowledge and the concept of life.These works have either presented a staged or continuous Chinese national spirit,and the Ancient Chinese enlightenment books are one of the most vivid categories of them.As a textbook for the education of the children,the ancient Chinese enlightenment books simplifies and clarifies the incomprehensible contents of ancient masterpieces into simple,easy-to-understand short sentences and essays,making them more refined and easy to remember.So that traditional Mongolian stories such as "Nang ying ying xue" and "Zao bi jie guang" are still widely used today.Therefore,with the help of narratological analysis,this article attempts to explore the national spirit contained in these traditional enlightenment stories and the reasons for its enduring charm.This article extracts 342 traditional enlightenment stories from the six ancient Chinese enlightenment works of San Zi Jing,Meng Qiu,You Xue Qiong Lin,Qian Zi Wen,Ming Xian Ji and Di Zi Gui.And it is classified,quantified and summarized by the two dimensions of the subject of values and the title of the work.On the basis of the conclusion that the traditional Chinese enlightenment story has the tendency of ”seeking knowledge” values,I analyze the story texts of Chinese traditional enlightenment stories in turn from narrative content,statement structure and discourse features with the help of American narratologist Seymour Chatman’s research on the narrative structure and narrative elements.Then based on the above analysis,I summed up the narrative phenomena such as the incomplete narrative elements of the traditional Chinese enlightenment story and the extreme setting of the characters in the traditional enlightenment story.In addition,based on the communication adaptation theory proposed by American communicologist Howard Giles,I combine the narrative features of Chinese traditional enlightenment stories and compare the statement structure of the samevalue theme in different enlightenment stories.Finally,the discourse strategy of attracting/rejecting the traditional Chinese enlightenment story is obtained.In general,the implied authors of traditional Chinese enlightenment stories break down and reorganize complex storylines into narrative and typical action segments by refining narrative elements,selecting storylines,and facializing characters.The implied author then uses the voice of the covert narrator to construct one or more fragmented action segments into narratives.Then add the rhythm and compress its length to a half sentence or a sentence,so that it is easy to remember,and contains a lot of space for expression.At present,information dissemination in the Internet age can also draw on the narrative communication strategies of traditional enlightenment stories,such as fragmentation,extremism,covert narrative and attraction/rejection,to encapsulate certain information cores with certain narrative characteristics to enhance communication.s efficiency.In addition,the traditional Mongolian story can also be based on the textual basis of its greater degree of freedom,concatenating different materials and carriers,thereby expanding the user community and broadening the boundaries of meaningful production.In view of the current academic research on the traditional values in Chinese classical literature,the focus is on the study of the works of the Spring and Autumn era,and the research on ancient Chinese enlightenment works is still only focused on the study of its educational role(as a textbook),the study of the inheritance and dissemination of Confucianism,and the induction and classification of the enlightenment works themselves.There is a lack of centralized quantification,combing,classification and holistic research on the traditional Chinese enlightenment story.I hope this article can provide some reference for later scholars on the dissemination of Chinese traditional culture and ancient Chinese studies.