On The Reconstruction Of Chang’e In The Novels Of Ming And Qing Dynasties

Chang’e ran to the moon and Gongtouch the mountain,Houyi shot the sun,Nu Wa mending the sky and called the four major Chinese myths.Chang’e is a cultural symbol with a long history in the Chinese cultural system.It has a complex rhesystem and has a far-reaching influence on later generations.Chinese mythology has many trends in the development of later generations,and the two common trends reflected in the field of literature are respectively the historical myth and the myth literature,and there is a mutual influence relationship between the two.Therefore,the image of Chang ’e has moved from myth to history,and then to literature,which has experienced a lot of evolution and development,and the image of Chang’ e has a wide range of manifestations in literary works.From literati notes,to festival legends,to popular novels,the image of Chang ’e has experienced changes in elegance and customs,especially in the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The image of Chang’ e is reshaped by the literati,producing a new and different cultural connotation.This paper studies the reconstruction of Chang’e image in the Ming and Qing novels,which is divided into the following five parts:The first chapter is the introduction,which summarizes the relevant research status at home and abroad,and puts forward the innovation points and research significance of this paper.In the second chapter,the early images of Chang ’e are sorted out,and the related images of Chang’ e are examined and divided into pre-Qin,Han,Wei,Jin,Tang and Tang dynasties."Chang Yi" and "Chang Xi" are the different names of Chang ’e,and Yi is the most closely related image with Chang’ e,which itself has a complex and profound mythological system,and gradually evolved into the identity of Chang’e mate god.In the process of combing the early image of Chang ’e,is the origin of the image of Chang’ e,the prototype of the moon in the pre-Qin and Han basic formation;Wei,Jin,Tang and Song dynasties,is the development of Chang ’e image,Chang’ e myth itself,and more to the direction of historical and literary myth.Chapters 3 and 4are the focus of this study.The third chapter mainly analyzes the reconstruction of Chang’e in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties.This chapter is mainly divided into two parts.The first part divides the image of Chang’e in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties into two categories according to the characters,one is the immortal image,the other is the human image.In the novel to show the image of Chang ’e is mainly "said Fu","the past dynasties of the gods","Journey to the West" and "Mirror";the novels of chang’ e image of human novels are "Xia Zhi","72 character romance","open up an endless popular biography","Liaozhai Strange Chang’e" and "History of female fairy".The second part analyzes the cultural connotation of the image of Chang’e in the Ming and Qing Dynasties novels,which mainly summarizes it into three aspects: religious meaning,literati feelings and secular sentiment.The fourth chapter mainly compares the similarities and differences of the images of Chang’e in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties,and then analyzes the causes of the differences,mainly including four factors: text differences,social and economic background,ethics and religious factors.The fifth chapter is a conclusion,mainly summarizing the process and conclusions of this study.Chang ’e myth has a long history and a complex and huge system.After entering the literature,the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties constantly reshape the image of Chang’ e.The image of Chang ’e has gradually developed from a traditional lonely,cold,graceful and beautiful image to a human image with secular meaning,and the image of Chang’ e is also reshaped in different Ming and Qing novels.This paper attributes the causes behind it to four aspects:textual differences,social era background,ethics and religious factors,which reflect the cultural connotation of religious meaning,literati feelings and secular sentiment.