What is traditional historical fiction? Definition of traditional historical fiction. The definition of a traditional historical novel.

The combination of traditional literature and history has long kept the literary narration of history flourishing for a long time, and has made the two complementary and mutually reinforcing. However, since the 1980s, literature, while consciously moving away from the central discourse of political ideology and proposing a return to itself, has also moved away from the traditional way of speaking about history, and has gradually formed a new way of narrating history, the new historicist novel. The New Historicist novel makes a new and subversive change to the traditional narrative of "carrying history as a record and using the past as a metaphor for the present," a change that emphasizes narrative strategies and aesthetic directions that are different from those of the traditional Chinese historical novel, which carries the literary function of "learning from history. The narrative strategy and aesthetic direction emphasized in this change is very different from the traditional historical novel. However, the fact is that readers are still accustomed to comparing the presentation of history in novels with "official history," "official history," and "wild history" in the process of reading historical novels, and the criterion for comparison is often who is more in line with history, and who is more in line with history, and who is more in line with history. The criterion for comparison is often who is more in line with history itself. On the one hand, due to the requirement of "historical facts", historical novels need to emphasize on the comprehensive reflection of the historical and social life at that time and try to reproduce the life scenes at that time; on the other hand, due to the requirement of literary characteristics, historical novels have to involve in the fiction and imagination of literature, and emphasize on the expression of subjective emotion and will in the narration. The entanglement of these two narrative styles makes it difficult for the creation of historical novels to make more attempts on artistic forms. Therefore, it is necessary to make a specific study on the development and transmutation of historical novel narratives, to clarify the differences between traditional history and new historicist novel narratives in terms of plot structure, characterization of characters and values, and value purpose, and on this basis, to reflect the new historicist novels in their quest for new literary narrative strategies and aesthetic contexts. A specific study to clarify the differences between traditional history and new historicist novel narratives in terms of plot structure, characterization of characters and values, and appeal to value purposes, and on this basis, to reflect the positive significance of new historicist novels in the search for new literary narrative strategies and aesthetic contexts.

The new historicist novels have achieved positive significance in the search for new literary narrative strategies and aesthetic context.

Traditional historical novels attach great importance to the causal relationship between events and phenomena in their plot structure, and believe that there exists a separate force in the sequence of time development that controls and determines the end of the characters and events. The existence of such a causal relationship can be clearly seen in the historical novels of the Song and Yuan dynasties, from the "history-telling" and "commentary" of the Ming and Qing dynasties, to the May Fourth period and some later traditional historical novels. With regard to the "telling of history" and "commentary" in the Song and Yuan dynasties, Luo Ye said in his Drunken Master's Record of Talks: "With only a three-inch tongue, they praised and criticized right and wrong; with a little more than 10,000 words, they talked about the past and the present." This shows that artists pay special attention to "telling" and "commenting" when they talk about history and speak, and in the "commenting" they also emphasize the causal relationship between the events and characters before and after, such as the "Plain Talk on the History of the Five Dynasties": "Zhu Wen did not hear all things are rest, only to hear after, anger from the heart, evil to the gall side of the birth."