Research On Family Parents Image In The Legend Of Tang Dynasty

The legends of Tang dynasty have a wide range of themes,vivid artistic images.It has shaping a lot of lively and impressive characters.Among them,the proportion of parent image is quite large,and has appeared in many well-known love stories.Feudal parents are often came out at the turning point or the conflict point of the story.They played the very important roles in promoting the plot of the story,and their education or behavior of the protagonist also affected the character of the protagonist.Readers' impression of the parents in the legend of tang dynasty is always feudatorial and conservative.They are standing on the negative position to obstructs their children's love and marriage.However,they don't always do that in the stories,for example,in biography of Liu Yi,the different behavior of DongTing Dragon King and QianTang Dragon King after hearing the tragic experience of daughter of dragon.For another example,in biography of Li Wa,Mr.Zheng in XingYang`s different attitudes towards his son in different periods of time.They are all worth exploring and studying.This paper starts with the characteristics and artistry of parents image in the legend of Tang Dynasty,choosing more than 50 stories which structure are more complete and parent images are more plump in legend of Tang Dynasty to research.The study will analyse three parts: image type;image feature and the image`s significance and importance in article.This paper is divided into five parts:In the introduction,the meaning,concept and historical status of the legends of the tang dynasty are elaborated,and the reason,significance,research status and methods of the topic selection are discussed.The first part is classifying parents image as human,immortal and evil spirit by status.These three aspects can almost involved all the parent images in legend of Tang Dynasty.The second part is talking about the characteristics of parent images,which is concluded from image`s background,experience and traits of character.Five type of parent images have been divided:classic parents which love their children;parents with well-behavior and open-mind;parents which are easy to compromise;the feudal parents which pay more attention to family interests and the autocratic parents.The third part discussed the significance and the value of parent images in legend of Tang Dynasty.Parent images have played a very important role in structure arrangement,and has a very big influence on the creation of later literati.The author`s description of parents in some ways truly reproduce the literati`s concept of class and spiritual pursuits in Tang Dynasty.It also Makes the work more legendary.The last part will analyse and summarize the function of the parent images in the legend of Tang Dynasty.Then make readers understand that not all ancient parent images are negative.This is an area that deserves further study...