Huan xi yuan jia is a collection of short stories in vernacular written by the master of the West Lake in the late Ming Dynasty.The novel presents relatively unique narrative and local folk characteristics with 24 stories.In this thesis,based on the text,combined with the theory of narratology and regional folklore,starting from three aspects of story theme,narrative structure and regional folklore,the literary history value of the novel is analyzed and studied in detail,among which the story theme and folk narration are the focus of this thesis.This thesis is divided into three parts: introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction mainly introduces the current situation and significance of the research of " Huan xi yuan jia",analyzes and sorts out the previous research results,and clarifies the research focus and value of this thesis.The main text is divided into five chapters as follows:The first chapter "Huan xi yuan jia " and Jiangnan regional culture.This chapter first makes clear the regional cultural background reflected in the novel,and then investigates the relationship between the author of the novel,the west Lake fishing master,and the northern Zhejiang region.Chapter two story theme and marriage ethics.This chapter mainly analyzes the story construction of the novel and the concept of Confucianism and Buddhism.The novel organizes the plot through marriage and love relationship,constructs a series of marriage and love themed stories,and presents the novel’s unique marriage and love ethics and chastity view.At the same time,it analyzes the concept of Confucianism and Buddhism presented in the novel,and combs the author’s idea of organizing character logic.Chapter three narrative situation and spatial change.This chapter mainly focuses on the author’s narrative situation and narrative space transfer created by the novel.The author changes omniscient narrative mode and supplements narrative content through the expansion of perspective.At the same time,the author promotes the transformation of narrative space and plot development through various factors.Chapter four commercial activities and regional folk customs in northern Zhejiang.This chapter mainly studies the regional activities presented in the novel.The novel reflects the most basic business activities of people in northern Zhejiang;At the same time,as a folk literature,it presents the regional activities such as marriage,festival and litigation in northern Zhejiang.In addition,the novel is also influenced by divination culture and ghost thought,presenting a unique style.Chapter five: The historical value of Huan xi yuan jia.This chapter mainly studies the value of novels from two aspects: structure and content.In terms of structure,cut into words to present personal views in the way of general evaluation;In terms of content,the author makes an innovative interpretation of the previous literature materials and shows its unique value of literature history.The conclusion part summarizes the content of the whole thesis,combs the whole research,and emphasizes the significance of this study. |