A Study On Historical Materials Of Novel And Drama In Wan Li Ye Huo Bian

The origin historical materials of Shen Defu’s novel and drama comes from his family and friends.The Shen family has literary literacy for generations.Shen Defu’s grandfather,Shen Qiyuan,has a collection of books.His father,Shen Zibin,participated in the compilation of Canon of the Ming Dynasty with historical culture.Shen Defu’s group of friends included many novelists and drama writers.All these have become the origin of Shen Defu’s historical records of novel and drama.There are three sources of historical materials in Wan Li Ye Huo Bian: The first is the ancient and modern history,Shen Defu often uses historical materials as a reference to judge the authenticity of the obtained data;the second is notes written by literati,Shen Defu extensively read the notes written by literati,which enriched the historical materials of Wan Li Ye Huo Bian;the third is news form friends and relatives,through contacts with people around him,Shen Defu was able to widely increase his knowledge,and added a lot of rare historical materials.Shen Defu quoted these historical materials directly or modified them to reflect the "real record" purpose of his writing.There are two types of historical materials recorded on drama in Wan Li Ye Huo Bian: One is the collection of novel documents.Shen Defu collected the author,version and circulation of notebook novels and popular novels in the Ming Dynasty,the second is the compilation of novel texts,Shen Defu compiled a number of novel items,which included the Zhiguai category,Zhiren category and the Bowu category.The records of this kind of historical materials show Shen Defu’s view of novels,that is,novels have the characteristics of "shallow talk" and record,and has the function of supplementary history.The historical materials of novel and drama in Wan Li Ye Huo Bian are literary.The specific performance is performance is: in the way of arrangement,Shen Defu uses the arrangement of time,class,and set off each other,in the technique of narrative,Shen Defu adopted the way of positive and negative description,the combination of narration and theory,and the mixture of reality and reality;in the use of language,Shen Defu’s language is characterized by profundity,intermingled dialects and humorous.