"The History of Confucianism" is a cultural ** with a thinker's temperament, and it is an artistic masterpiece with elegant taste. It has different stylistic characteristics from the popular **, so its narrative method has also undergone significant changes. Ancient Chinese ** mostly used legendary stories as the theme, which can be said to be "legendary". In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, starting from "The Golden Vase Plum", mortals were used as the protagonists to describe secular life. And what really completed this transformation was "The Outer History of Confucianism". It has neither thrilling legends nor touching stories with affection, but shows a painting of social customs with the daily life and people's spiritual world that can be seen everywhere at that time.
1. "The Outer History of Confucianism" gets rid of the legend of the traditional **, dilutes the storyline, and does not rely on fierce contradictions and conflicts to portray the characters, butRespect for objective reproduction, with ordinary details, passedFine white drawingto reproduce life and shape characters.
2. The characters written in "The Outer History of Confucianism".Closer to the real face of people, write the true character of ordinary people through ordinary life. Wu Jingzi has created a sincere and simple character of the lower-class people through extremely ordinary and even trivial descriptions of daily life, which is deeply moving. The characters are also free from typology and have rich personalities. For example, Yan Jiansheng has both a dime and a penny, greedy desire and human affection, which is both contradictory and unified to show the richness of the character. The author writes not only about the richness of the characters' personalities, but also about the complexity of the characters' inner worlds. For example, the first multi-layered revelation of Shi Zhixian's inner world, all kinds of complex psychology are constantly turning and changing, and the mentality extends in the vertical curve, allowing people to see the activities in the depths of his soul.
3. The process of each character's activity in "The Outer History of Confucianism" is not long, but it can reflect the non-fixed character of the character in the limited plot, that isDevelopmental changes in character。Kuang Chaoren has developed from a simple young man to a degenerate character, writing about his character that changes with the environment, status, and the relationship between characters, and in his character changes, he also reflects profound changes in social life. The portrait descriptions of ancient ** characters are often face-painted, and "The Outer History of Confucianism" replaces them with real and detailed descriptions, revealing the characters' personalities.
Fourth, the description of the natural scenery in "The Outer History of Confucianism" also abandons the patterned and neat rhyme that Zhang Hui has followed for a long time, and uses itColloquialof prose, rightObjective scenery is described accurately and unconventionally。For example, in the thirty-third episode, Du Shaoqing and a few friends were cooking tea and gossiping in the riverside pavilion, looking at the river from the window, "the sun has set, and thousands of masts are half red."
Fifth, "The Outer History of Confucianism" has changed the traditional ** storyteller's commentary mode and adoptedThe narrative of objective observation by a third-person invisible person, allowing readers to meet directly with life, greatly shortening the distance between the image and readers. The author tries not to comment on the characters, but provides the reader with an observation angle, and the characters themselves are presented in front of the readers, and less about the characters' inner confessions, but only objectively provides the characters' speech and demeanor, so that the readers can imagine and appreciate it by themselves. The author has been able to putThe narrative perspective shifts from the narrator to the character in **, through the different perspectives and psychological feelings of different characters, write their views on the objective world, which greatly enriches the narrative angle of **. Wu Jingzi attempts to create an art that is more directly separated from life, showing the flow and abundance of natural forms of life itself. The new features of the narrative of The Outer History of Confucianism are consistent with the author's aesthetic thoughts.
[Li Fan keywords:Objective reproduction, real appearance, character development, colloquialism, objective observation
[Li Fan said:The narrative art of "The Outer History of Confucianism" has undergone great changes compared with the previous **, which is mainly reflected in the portrayal of characters, the description of scenery and narrative methods.