The Chivalrous works in Sanyan and Erpai not only inherit the chivalrous spirit of previous generations,but also embody distinctive features of The Times and show the tendency of citizenization,which connects the preceding and the following in the creation of short chivalrous novels in vernacular Chinese.Therefore,the research of chivalrous works is indispensable in the research of Sanyan and Erpai.Since the large quantity and large quality of chivalrous works in Sanyan and Erpai,the essence of Chinese chivalrous spirits can be valued through them,which also demonstrates the significance of this topic to the research of the Chinese Kinght-Errant.Even so,the Chivalrous works in Sanyan and Erpai do not attract enough attention by the public.Therefore,it is necessary to dig into them.This paper puts the chivalrous works of Sanyan and Erpai into the perspective of the development of chivalric literature to carry out a longitudinal study.The first part discusses the origin of chivalry culture of Sanyan and Erpai,including the influence of "historical chivalry" and "literary chivalry" on the chivalry description of Sanyan and Erpai since the warring states period,as well as the influence of social background and cultural background in the late Ming dynasty.The second part bases on the contents of Sanyan and Erpai and carries out an analysis on the chivalrous thought,which includes not only the traditional chivalrous thought,but also the variant chivalrous thought with distinct characteristics of The Times.The third part discusses the artistic characteristics of the description of Sanyan and Erpai,especially highlighting its unique artistic expressiveness which distinguishes it from other genres as a representative work of the narrative and the fiction of the proposed narrative.The fourth part is the innovation of this paper,which extracts the essence of chivalrous thoughts and deep cultural accumulation from Sanyan and Erpai,and extracts the essential characteristics of the Chinese Knight-Errant.The fifth part discusses the description of chivalry in Sanyan and Erpai and its far-reaching influence on the works of later generations,especially on the description of chivalry in the stories of later generations.So far,based on the content of the text,from the source of chivalry culture of Sanyan and Erpai to its influence on later generations,a relatively clear development context can be sorted out. |