The Study On The Turtles In The Novels Of Sui,Tang And Five Dynasties

This dissertation is divided into three chapters.As the basic part of this dissertation,the first chapter aims to sort out the development of tortoise image as the writing object of the text.On the one hand,this chapter not only discusses the biological properties of tortoises from three aspects of species,shape and habits,and also traces back to the changes in the cultural attributes of tortoises from prehistory to pre Tang Dynasty from the perspective of politics and religion.On the other hand,borrowing Frye’s prototype criticism theory,the tortoise images before Tang Dynasty are divided into five categories: apocalyptic image,magic image,naive analogy image,rational analogy image and experience analogy image,and traces the origin and development of tortoise as image in literature.In the second chapter,the tortoise stories in Tang Dynasty are divided into tortoise divination,auspicious tortoise,tortoise ornaments,and tortoise monsters,which respectively study the precursive belief and destiny consciousness of the Tang people,the ideology of auspicious omen,political narrative means,aesthetic tendency and religious psychology.The third chapter mainly studies the typical tortoise monster image,and analyzes the new changes of tortoise monster image in Tang Dynasty from three aspects of humanization typification and secularization.The loss of the divinity of tortoise and the simplification of tortoise monster image and the change of the relationship between human and tortoise in Tang Dynasty are the results of the main body of the writing of the ghost and monster story becomes literati,the diversion of tortoise culture in the development process and the prevalence of conversing enthusiastically.