董永传说英文版本

董永传说英文版本 董永传说英文 Legend of Dong 1. Synopsis "Dong Legend" is China's ancient folklore.The birthplace of "Dong Legend" is located in Dongyong village, which belongs to Zhixi Town, Jintan County, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province (formerly known as Trang). There are multiple records about legends of dutiful son Dong and the seventh fairy and his son He ’ Sheng in Guangxusversion of the “Jin Tan County." In the territory of Jintan, Zhixi, there are up to 40 multiple sites and in-kind (pieces) related to legendary Dong. There are Dong Temple, Wangxian Bridge and Dongyong's grave testament in the territory of Jintan. Under the Wangxian Bridge lies the "wangxian bridge reconstruction to record" inscription completed in the time of Emperor Qianlong. The old scholartree where Dong Yong and the seventh fairy pledged love is still in Jintan. There are multiple records about Dong Yong, Wangxian Bridge, Dongyong's grave and Wangxian old stone and ’ so on in Guangxusversion of the "Golden Altar County." There are plenty of poetries that are written by famous people in all previous dynasties singing Dong Yong and the seventh fairy in Jintan. 2. Historical Origin Dong legend began in the Han Dynasty and first appeared in the Eastern Han Wu Liang Shrine stone, according to which Liu Xiang, the Han writer, wrote the story "Filial Figure Chuan Zan." In the time of Three Kingdoms, cao zhi's “the ganoderma lucidum article” have description:”Dong Yong was incredible poor in childhood and the eleder has not left behind the inheritance to him. He ofen borrowed money to support his father and he also frequently went to work for others to exchange for food to serve his father. But the result was that a large number of people gathered at his door for debt and Dong did not know to deal with it. In this case, God was moved by Dong’s supreme morals and a godness came to weave cotton cloth for him.” Gan Bao, the Eastern Jin writer, told the story of Dong?s selling himself to bury his fahter and the godness’s returning to earth to help solve the problem in his book —" Immortals ". The language is simple ,but the plot has become complete. In Tang Dynasty, the "Immortals First Roll • Piety," "Dutiful Son" and "the Dong Culture Change" and so on that are included in the Dunhuang Manuscripts adapted the story of Dong comprehensively with Confucianism, Buddhism, and taosim thoughts. And finally it uses the form of a combination of Tang Dynasty Buddhist Zen preaching about singing with folk literature to impact the spread of the story of Dong in the folk a lot. The episode of “DongZhong?s in Search of Mother" is the unique art creation of the folk rap artists of Dunhuang. It is also the most wonderful plot in the story of Dong by the end of Tang Dynasty and you can see everywhere the impact of Buddhism and taosim in it. During the Time of Song and Yuan, with the development and prosperity of storytelling industry, the legend of “Dong?s encounter fairy” became popular in story-telling scripts. In Ming Dynasty, by the editing and arrangement of scholar Hong Geng and his adopting it into the "rain window set" of his “Qing PingShanTang story-telling scripts", the legend of “Dong?s encounter fairy” was preserved. Around the time of Emperor Jia Jing, folk artists the legend of “Dong?s encounter fairy” adapted into dramas like "HuaiYin Tree", "Tapestry to Record", "the Fairy in Record" and so on according to the its Song Yuan story-telling scripts, which brought the image of the Dong onto the stage. 3. Artistic Features Dong?s story of good filial piety was regarded as a model and listed as one of the 24 filial piety, which has close relation to people?s simple idea of morality. The core idea of "Dong Legend" is to honor their parents and this is also the traditional virtues advocated by Chinese nation, which is consistent with socialist spiritual civilization advocated today and has become an important part of Socialist morality and customs. And this is the realistic characteristics that the legend has. In the form of oral folk literature and through the processing of all previous literary authors, "Dong Legend" gradually evolved into a earthshaking love of heaven and earth, interpreted as a sense of filial piety „s moving the God, Dong?s selling himself into servitude and the fairy’s weaving cloth, fairy?s descending to earth and becoming attached to Dong, Dong?s completing work and returning home, world concentric and such as these full of the mysterious color attractive plots, which made the story still popular after the millennium and with distinct Legendary characteristic. 4. Inheritance "Dong legend" is well-known in local place and even the women and children know of it. But because of oral spread, its inheritance lineages cross each other and are difficult to comb out. Now we can track of the three main: (1)Li Shuangxiao, Li Linchun, Li Shuzhi, Li Zhongzheng; (2) Wu Xiaofeng, Li Yunfa, Li Yunliang; (3) Li Jincai, Li Xiangrong, Li Ruilan.