The Narrative Style of "Actions in the Night" and Its Cultural Implication in Heroes of the Marshes
Abstract
"Water Margin" and "night" of the narrative can be divided into the legendary "Night", "Night walk", "Night downtown," "night" and other forms. "Night" narrative highlights the heroes you walk in the wilderness alone only affect remote areas of wilderness or "Brave"; "night walk" heroic narrative render the loss of road and fled to escape the sorrow; "Night trouble" narrative demonstrates "killing on the black night, the wind high fire days" spectacular; "night" fiddle a thrilling narrative of swords, war clouds. In the traditional agricultural society, people every reference to "nocturnal", "Xiao casual night together" and "night" activities, it is easy to have a "demon prostitution plotters" and commit crimes of "trouble" association, which "Water Margin Biography "of the various forms of" Night "of the narrative involves both moral order and ethical challenges, particularly conducive to heroes of the" Zhuangxin "build. Meanwhile, the "Water Margin" the classification of "Night" and more focused on the "Qiu Xi", "winter" and so on cold nights, in line with the traditional society, "soldiers on the battlefield autumn," the laws of war, especially those that occur in the Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. festival "Night downtown," the story will help render tragic hero. There are several kinds of "actions in the night" narrations in Heroes of the Marshes such as "night-walking", "night-going", "night-raiding", and "night-fighting". Various heroes who walked alone in the remote or wilderness areas in the night have been described as brave as a tiger by "night-walking". The narration of "night-going" exaggerates enonnously the heroes' sentimentalization of losing the way and fleeing in panic. The narration of " night-raiding "reveals the spectacularity of" murdering in the deep night, setting fire in the heavy wind weather "and the soul stirring battle stories with flashing blades have been described in" night-fighting ". When mentioned the people's actions" hiding by day and coming out at night "and" gathering in the night and scattering in the day "in the traditional fanning community, the persons associated with acting criminally in thinking easily, so the narration about" actions in the night "in Heroes of the Marshes gives a challenge to the traditional ethics order. Moreover, most actions of "the night" in this novel were in cold nights such as in autumn and winter nights which are consistent with the traditional wars happened in autumn