On The Unnatural Death Of Women In The Tang Dynasty And Five Dynasties Novel

In the Tang Dynasty,the golden age of women,under the influence of the will of the state,at least at the public level,did not pay substantial attention to the issue of unnatural death of women,and in the private sphere of the literati,"it was curiosity to writing in novel".Observing women’s unnatural death from a special carrier such as a novel can not only trigger a rethinking of the living conditions of women in the Tang Dynasty and the circumstances they encountered after death,but also generate a detailed investigation of the Tang Dynasty’s social concept of death,death imagination,death culture,etc.,and can also decode the religious,folklore,sociological and other information behind the phenomenon of unnatural death of women in the Tang Dynasty.This article is divided into three chapters:The first chapter directly starts with the novels of the Tang Dynasty and looks at the phenomenon of unnatural death of women.Novelists are drawn to weave a variety of strange female post-mortem plots,not only limited to the possible real events such as the humiliation or destruction of corpses,but also add the element of ghosts and ghosts,from the corpse to the reputation problem,under the intervention of folk customs,the special cultural phenomenon of meditative marriage is also reflected in the text of the novel,coupled with the influence of Buddhism and Taoism,the plot of rebirth and reincarnation continues to emerge,and sometimes people are associated with different kinds.These novel plots open up a new way out for women after death that basically do not exist in real life.In addition,in the plot after the unnatural death of women in the Novels of the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasty,most of them return to the beautiful situation of the "reunion style",which is due to the predictable handling of the psychology of common creation,and at the same time is gradually contaminated by the aesthetic ideas of the Tang Dynasty’s "circle",and from the end of the story,the terrible elements of the nether space constructed in the Novels of the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasty seem to have been weakened as a result.The second chapter focuses on the diachronic issue of unnatural female death in fiction.In pre-Qin mythology,there is no clear theme in the development of the plot after the death of women,neither completely but concretely constructing a space that is inseparable from the world of the living,nor does it well connect the imagined underground space with the phenomenon of unnatural death of women,in addition,the lack of emotional factors is also the characteristic of writing in this period.In the writing of the han dynasty and later notebook novels,the plot after death is rarely exaggerated,and even the narrative of the funeral is only on the basis of the actual ceremonial system,and there is no deviant fantasy space.In addition,women’s unnatural deaths only exist as tools to promote ethics,and the personality characteristics of such women are not distinct,and it is difficult to say that they are not stylized models.After entering the Six Dynasties,it broke through the cramped and narrow situation of the Han Dynasty and before,and basically developed the story type contained in the novels of the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties,but at the same time had its own unique narrative type.In the depiction of the space of the difu,most of the novels of the Six Dynasties are viewed from a male perspective,and few women who die unnaturally go to the difu alone to show the situation of the prefectural government.By the Song and Yuan dynasties,the plot of the posthumous death of women in the form of outliers was still lingering,but the number of idle wild-talk notes gradually overwhelmed the number of novels written purely by literati,and the writing of unnatural deaths of women caused by family disputes and wars and disputes was also rapidly rising,and this kind of writing was evolving in the direction of realistic and credible shaping.With the confucian system and moral concepts deeply rooted in the hearts of the people,the unnatural death of women in the Ming and Qing Dynasty notebook novels focused on the special group of virgins and martyrs,and the alien narratives about the immortals,demons and ghosts began to be rekindled,continuing the complex postmortem plot types in the Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties novels.The third chapter aims to explore the linkage between the writing of women’s unnatural death in the novels of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasty of and the funeral literature of the Tang Dynasty,mainly from the three aspects of female image,death vocabulary,and emotional tone.In the portrayal of female figures,most of the dead women in the novel are fictional middle and lower-class groups,while the dead women in the mourning poems are mostly upper-class noblewomen,and even some are well-known figures in history.In addition,the novel rarely deliberately arranges the real unnatural death of women,and in the mourning poems,it is basically based on real characters,and there is little overlap between the two.In the vocabulary of death,the title of the unnatural way of death of women in the novel,except for special words such as "corpse","cicada degeneration" and "migration" under the influence of religious factors,most of them use simple and rough direct expressions of specific causes of death,while the expression of death in funeral elegy is particularly elegant and obscure,and the richness of death vocabulary is far more than the novel.In terms of emotional tone,the emotional orientation of the unnatural death plot of women in the novel is relatively single,and in general,the specific type of feelings is not directly pointed out in the text,on the contrary,the emotional orientation in funeral literature is more scattered and complex,and the way of emotional expression is more clear.