The Narrative Study Of Dreams Entrusted By Ghosts And Gods In Popular Novels In Ming And Qing Dynasties

The ghosts and gods entrust the dream,that is,the ghosts and gods give instructions to the dreamer.It contains deep human fear and curiosity about th e unknown world,contains deep human emotional connotations.It bears an irr eplaceable narrative meaning in the popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynastie s,showing the living conditions of the people at that time.Therefore,this arti cle takes the narrative of the ghosts and gods entrusting the dream in Ming an d Qing popular novels as the research object,classifies the plots of the dream by entrusted by the ghosts and gods,analyzes the narrative characteristics of the plots of the dream by entrusted by the ghosts and gods in the text,reveals the narrative function,shows its unique aesthetic color,and explains its cultural connotation implications.The introductory section introduces the origin and significance of this topic,the origin of the narrative of the plots of ghosts and gods entrusting the dream,the research methods,the basic ideas and the main innovations of the topic.The main text consists of four chapters:The first chapter analyzes the types of narration of dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods in the popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties.The popular novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties have a large number of dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods,and their content is complex.Only by roughly classifying them can paper analyze their narrative mission from a macro perspective,reveal their narrative aesthetic characteristics,and tap the cultural connotation.According to the motives of the dreamers,this article divides the dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods in Ming and Qing popular novels into dream-helpping type,dream-seeking type,dream-trans mitting type and dream-killing type.The second chapter mainly analyzes the narrative features of the plots of the ghosts and gods entrusting the dream of popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties.First of all,the popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties have their unique narrative forms,which are both surprising and modular.The first is the horror in the timing of the story.Most of the dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods in this period happened late at night or on special festivals.The creators make use of the inscrutability of the night and special festive customs to create a narrative atmosphere that seems real and frightening,bringing readers a surprising reading experience.The second is the singularity in the setting of the situations in the story.The dreams of ghosts and gods during this period occurred either after praying and worshiping the gods and paying homage to the dead,or occurred when the protagonist of the story was in an abnormal physical state or in a sober mental state.The third is that in this period,a lot of programming language was used when describing the dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods,forming a general routine of the narrative language of the dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods.Secondly,the narrative of the dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods in popular novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties is also extremely flexible in the arrangement of narrative time,combining pre-narrative and post-narrative ingeniously.At the same time,The narrative rhythm and frequency are adjusted through the sparseness of the narrative time interval and the narrative frequency,forming the narrative characteristic of avoiding complexity and simplifying.In the end,the plots of ghosts and gods entrusting the dream have realized the flow of double space and multiple spaces in spatial arrangement.This kind of space flow is not only reflected in the external flow from the real space to the dream space,but also in the multi-layered flow inside the dream space.The third chapter mainly analyzes the narrative function and aesthetics of the narrative of the plots of the ghosts and gods entrusting the dream in popular novels in Ming and Qing dynasties.First of all,the narrative perspectives of the plots of the ghosts and gods entrusting the dream are divided into the dreamer’s perspective and the entrusting dreamer’s perspective.Among them,the dreamer’s perspective is based on the limited perspective,which has the function of setting suspenseful narration.Unlike the dreamer’s perspective,the novelist has endowed the entrusting dreamer with magical abilities.Therefore,the dreamer’s perspective has the ability to surpass reality,and has the supplementary role of filling in the gaps in the plot and revealing the suspense.Secondly,the plots of dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods is actually a poor narrative strategy of the author when the plot cannot be promoted,which can rationalize the plot,cause the sudden turn of the plot and generate new plots.In addition,the plots of dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods can also highlight the individuality and singularity of the characters in character shaping,and express the psychological changes of the characters.Finally,the popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties have rich aesthetics in narrative aesthetics,of which violence is the main feature.This violent color renders a terrifying narrative atmosphere on the surface,has a unique entertainment function,and shows the author’s creative concept of writing beauty with ugliness on the deep level.It has a cautionary aesthetic interest,revealing the aesthetic connotation of the author’s pursuit of circular beauty.The fourth chapter mainly explores the cultural implications of the narrative of the plots of the ghosts and gods entrusting the dream.First of all,it contains the connotation of prototype.Ghosts and gods help people and human beings both show people’s desire to be rescued,show the archetype connotation of rescuing,and contain the humanistic and religious care of novelists.At the same time,dreams entrusted by ghosts and gods contain ritual prototypes,the most typical ones are the prototype of the passing ritual and the prototype of the farewell ritual.Secondly,the narrative of the ghosts and gods entrusting under the dream also contains new changes in the novelist’s view of ghosts and gods.The dream entrusted by ghosts and gods shows the rational thinking of the novelists on the worship of ghosts and gods.Through the depiction of the phenomenon of the exchange of objects between ghosts and gods,the commercialization of the image of ghosts and gods is revealed.Thirdly,the narrative of the ghosts and gods entrusting is also the author’s reflection of the real society.The text of the novel shows the connotation of the Ming and Qing dynasties through the satire of the real society,the call for moral order and the expression of the individual spirit of resistance.