The Tang Dynasty not only had poetry that has been passed down through the ages, but also amazing legendary literature, with the Great Calendar, Yuan and Shi as the most prosperous. Before it arose, at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, several articles appeared, which happened to be works between the Six Dynasties Story Collection and the Tang LegendAry Text, which can be considered to be the end of the story collection, and it is the pioneer of the legendary text. The following is an introduction to the legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty, which are bizarre and quirky, and very wonderful.
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The earliest one is the "Ancient Mirror Record" of Wang Du, an author in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. Wang Du was the younger brother of the philosopher Wang Tong and the older brother of the poet Wang Ji. The so-called ancient mirror is really a mirror that can bring down demons and demons.
This article first describes the origin of his mirror, then recounts the exploits of the ancient mirror to drive away demons, and finally describes his brother's long journey to defend himself with the mirror, and as a result, many monsters were killed in various places.
Finally, the author says that one day the mirror of the gods was "mournful in the box, and its voice was far away, and the Russian was getting bigger and bigger, and if the dragon and tiger roared, it would be fixed for a long time." When you open the box and look at it, you lose the mirror."
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In the era of Wu Zetian, the literati Zhang Que had the work "You Xian Grotto", which is the original story of love, the author recounts that he was entrusted to Heyuan, fascinated by a fairy cave, entertained by the women's tenth and fifth niang, feasted and laughed, and left overnight.
It is said that the author's posture is quite beautiful and lustful, and this article was written for Wu Zetian to show affection. The article was almost a plutonium, mixed with poetry and popular contempt, and this style of writing had a great influence later. However, this article was lost in China and remained in Japan until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
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In the great calendar, there is Chen Xuanyou's "Leaving the Soul", and Zheng Dehui's miscellaneous drama "Qiannu Leaving the Soul" in the Yuan Dynasty was adapted here. The story tells that Zhang Qianniang and Wang Zhou fell in love, but Qianniang's father allowed her to marry someone else, and Wang Zhou went away in grief. In the middle of the night, Qianniang chased them out, and they lived together for five years and gave birth to two sons.
Five years later, Qianniang returned to her father with Wang Zhou, and when she arrived at home, she found that another Qianniang was sick at home. The sick one heard of her arrival, got up to greet her, and the two bodies became one, and it turned out that it was Qianniang's soul that had gone out.
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Li Gongzuo, Yuan he and Jinshi, composed a total of four legends, and the "Nanke Taishou Biography" is the most moving. In terms of form, the Nanke Taishou Biography belongs to the same dream type as the Pillow Chronicle, but in fact it should belong to the same soul travel type as the Departing Soul Record.
The novel recounts that Chun Yu Yu dreamed of entering the cave of the big locust tree, became the horse of the big locust Anguo, and served as the Nanke Taishou, giving birth to five boys and two daughters, and guarding the county for thirty years. Later, he led his army to fight against the kingdom of Tanluo, and returned with a great defeat, and the princess died again, so he was deposed, and the king sent him back to his hometown.
After waking up from the dream, he found a hole under the locust tree, which turned out to be an ant nest, as if it were the same as the person who had experienced it in the dream. Although the intention of this novel is similar to that of "Pillow In the Pillow", it is more well described and the fantasy is more precise, which is better than "Pillow In the Pillow".
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The legends of the gods and monsters all want to enjoy and be happy in the dream, even if they are in love, they are not realistic, so the impression given to the reader is always without a sense of reality. The real love story in the world is enough to move people's hearts and lungs, so this type of Tang legend is the best of all legends.
The most widely circulated and influential person in this category is Yuan Shu's "Tale of the Warbler". Yuan Shu was a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, and the "Biography of Yingying" is a "Huizhen Record", which narrates the story of Cui Yingying and Zhang Sheng's private secret meeting.
Later, zhao lingyu of the Song Dynasty derived it into the drum lyric "Melody Butterfly Love Flower", which Dong Xieyuan of the Jin Dynasty used to create the Zhugong tune "West Chamber", and Wang Shifu of the Yuan Dynasty adapted it into the miscellaneous drama "West Chamber".
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Although "The Legend of the Warbler" is widely circulated, the text is not the best. And the most beautifully written text is Jiang Fang's "Biography of Huo Xiaoyu". Hu Yinglin of the Ming Dynasty once praised, "This is especially the most wonderful and moving legend of the Tang Dynasty, so it is recited in the decline of the Buddha."
Jiang Fang, Guan Hanlin Bachelor, Zhongshu Sheren. This biography describes the friendship between the famous prostitute Huo Xiaoyu and the poet Li Yi, but Li Yi was so desperate that he listened to his mother's orders and married a woman surnamed Lu. Xiao Yu was sick and could not get out of bed.
One day, Xiao Yutuo managed to forcibly invite Li Yi to his home, and Xiao Yushu said that he had a meal, but he died of anger. Its mood is poignant and poignant. Li Yi was a poet of the Tang Dynasty, and Huo Xiaoyu was also a real person, or non-fiction.
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Du Guangting, a Daoist priest at the end of the Tang Dynasty, has "The Biography of a Bearded Guest", which is also a widely circulated heroic novel. The story describes a prostitute in the late Sui Dynasty who holds a red whisker in her hand, and when Li Jing was not an official, the red breeze already knew him and fled. On the way, he also met a squirrel, who persuaded them to assist Li Shimin Xingtang, and he led the pirates to buyeo to kill his master and establish himself as king.
This novel is rich in the color of the times, Gaidu was born at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the world was in chaos, so he issued the proposition of honoring the emperor to relieve the suffering of the people. And because the author is a Taoist monk, the alchemist's breath is quite large. Technically, the novel was quite successful.