What are the chronicles of the Six Dynasties?

The emergence of strange novels and strange novels has a lot to do with the gentry's evaluation of characters and advocating the atmosphere of talking clearly after Wei and Jin Dynasties. As early as the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Gu wrote Hanshu, which contained a list of ancient and modern figures and divided them into nine categories. By the end of the Han dynasty, the atmosphere of judging characters among the gentry was prosperous, and the reputation of celebrities often decided the success or failure of this person's life. The basis of evaluation is mainly the demeanor and anecdotes of the characters. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, the gentry flaunted detachment and advocated nothingness. After crossing the river, the mysterious wind became more prosperous. The mysterious talk and strange behavior of celebrities became beautiful talk at that time, and the children of ordinary gentry rushed to follow suit. The world is still alive, because there are collections. This is a novel by Zhiren. At that time, this kind of novel about ambition was highly valued by the society, and Shi Shuo Xin Yu became a "textbook" for learning the manners of celebrities. As soon as Pei Qi's Yulin was written, many people from far and near scrambled to copy it. Even the emperor cares about the compilation of such novels. Liang Wudi ordered Yin Yun to write novels, which is an example. There are several biographies of local chronicles' novels in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties: Laughing Forest by the Three Kingdoms and Shan Chun, Miscellanies of Xijing by Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yu Lin by Pei Qi, Guo Zi by Guo Chengzhi, Shi Shuo Xin Yu by Song He, Popular Theory by Yue and Novel by Yin Yun. Except for Miscellanies of Xijing and Shi Shuo Xin Yu, the other six books are only edited versions.

According to the content, Zhiren's novels can be divided into three categories:

First, jokes. The Laughing Forest written by Han Danchun is full of short jokes, such as A Brief History of Lu Xun's Chinese Novels, which is the beginning of humorous writing.

Second, unofficial history. Ge Hong's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing, written under the guise of Liu Xin, describes the anecdotes of people in the Western Han Dynasty, and also involves the court system, customs, costumes and utensils, with a strange color. Some of these stories became very popular, such as Wang Zhaojun and Mao Yanshou, Sima and Zhuo Wenjun.

Third, anecdotes. This is the main part of Zhiren's novels, including Yu Lin, Guo Zi, Shi Shuo Xin Yu, popular theories and novels.

Shi Shuo Xin Yu is the representative work of Zhiren's novels. Its author, Liu Yiqing, is the nephew of Emperor Wu of Song Wudi. The Book of Songs says that he "gathers scribes from near to far." Shi Shuo Xin Yu was probably written by many people. This * * * three volumes, according to the content is divided into "virtue", "speech" and other 36 articles, recorded from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (only a few are about the Western Han Dynasty), especially the gentry such as Wang, Xie, Gu, Huan and so on. Many of these stories are taken from Yu Lin and Guo Zi, and sometimes the words are the same. Liang and Liu Xiaobiao annotated it, quoted more than 400 kinds of ancient books and supplemented a lot of information. Most of the cited books have been lost, and Liu Zhu is highly valued by future generations. Shi Shuo Xin Yu preserves the information of politics, ideology, religion, culture, lifestyle, customs and habits of the upper class of Han to Jin society, which is very valuable. Its literary value is also the highest in Zhiren's novels. It is good at depicting characters, and often only describes a few words or an action of the characters, which vividly shows their personality characteristics and spiritual world. Such as dao, passing cars, "looking for lice again, yi ran motionless. After the week, I came back and pointed to Gu Xin and said,' What's in it?' The lice in Bo Gu are still the same, and Xu Ying said,' This is the most unpredictable.' "("magnanimity "). Shi Shuo Xin Yu is also good at narration, and Liao Liao's numerals can explain a process. For example, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, met with the Xiongnu envoys, so that people could take their place and make their own beds. The whole process is explained in only sixty-nine words, and the language is concise, implicit and meaningful. As Hu Yinglin said in the Ming Dynasty, "When reading his language, Jin people suddenly became vivid, but they were simple and mysterious, which really left people with endless aftertaste" (Shaoshishan Pen Cong).

The novels of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties have a far-reaching influence on the development of later novels. He has accumulated experience for the creation of tang legends's novels in the aspects of characterization, detailed description and the use of narrative language. Some legendary stories in the Tang Dynasty are obviously taken from the novels of this period, such as "Away from the Soul" and "Pang A" in You, "Tiger Board" in Search and "Jiao Zhu" in You, all of which have obvious inheritance relations. Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a kind of mystery novels, such as Jane Yizhi by Hong Mai in the Song Dynasty and Notes of Yuewei Caotang by Ji Yun in the Qing Dynasty, which is obviously the inheritance and development of mystery novels in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are also many chapters in Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in the Qing Dynasty, which are similar to the strange novels in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are few sequels and imitations of Shi Shuo Xin Yu, such as Wang Shi Shuo Xin Yu (lost) in the Tang Dynasty, Shi Shuo by Kong in the Song Dynasty, He He in the Ming Dynasty and Shi Shuo Xin Yu by Li Shaowen in the Ming Dynasty.

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