An Analysis on Narrative of Legends in Tang Dynasty from a Comparative Perspective: Focusing on Wei Guan's Zhouqin Xingji
Abstract
The Tang Chuanqi "Zhou-Qin line in mind," put and Ba Jin's "revenge" and the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy's "after party" in comparative perspective can be seen: "Zhou-Qin line in mind," "Revenge," "After the Ball" sets of stories are the story structure, "Zhou-Qin line in mind," narrative strategy is different from the other two is that: not only talk about the topic of place is constructed, and because of deliberately ignoring the space-time differences for different time and space together in the same characters and events a space-time, about the number of stories, resulting in some areas can follow the real feelings of human common sense logic to accept, and in some ways it seems logical to subvert the real magic and refined. In addition, the narrator and the character shape into one, the narrator in the narrative and descriptive at the same time it also depicts his own psychological and personality, as well as other aspects of poetry into the novel, the novel the author has an excellent deal. "Zhou-Qin line in mind" phenomenon in the ancient to modern times the art of narrative literature are very rare and unique, is a precious cultural heritage. A study on the text narrative of Tang legend Zhouqin Xingji has been made frum a comparative perspective with Ba Jin's Fuchou and Toistoy's After the Ball, we could get a conclusion: All the three short stories share a similar narrative type which is "stories in stories ". Zhouqin Xingji has a distinguishing characteristic that characters in different times and places come together and share their stories in one particular setting by which readers can interpret feelings of the characters and stories in a realistic way, but on the other hand, those stories seem to run against the realistic sense. Moreover, the narrator and characters in the stoiy are identified with each other so the narrator also manifests his own mentality and personality. The artistic tactics in Zhouqin Xingji are very valuable to the world in both ancient and niodeni narrative literature; hence it is very precious cultural heritage