About the Biography of Liu Yi

Li Chaowei, a native of Longxi, had an unrecognizable biography. He is the author of Liu Yi Biography.

Liu Yi Chuan (柳毅传), one of the famous legendary novels of the Tang Dynasty. Originally contained in the "Taiping Guangji", only titled "Liu Yi", no "biography" word, Lu Xun's "Tang and Song Dynasty Legends Collection" began to add for the school. Wang Guoguan's Tang Dynasty Novels is still Liu Yi.

This is a mythological story of love. During the Yifeng period of the Tang Dynasty, a scholar, Liu Yi, passed by Jingyang on his way back to his hometown and met a dragon lady shepherding her sheep in the wilderness. The dragon lady told him how she was mistreated by her husband, Jingchuan Jun's second son, Zhi Gongma, and Liu Yi brought a letter to his father, Dongting Jun. Liu Yi is outraged and sends a letter on her behalf. When Dongting Jun's brother, Qiantang Jun, heard about this, he was furious and flew to Jingyang to kill his nephew-in-law and save the dragon lady. Qiantang Jun was so impressed by Liu Yi's righteousness that he asked her to marry him, but Liu Yi refused to do so because of his arrogant words. Later, Liu Yi marries the Fanyang Lu Clan, who is actually the incarnation of the Dragon Lady. The two finally became a happy couple.

While this piece is based on a myth, the whole piece is rich in romantic atmosphere, and at the same time, it is extremely profound in its practical significance. The problems it summarizes, such as family conflicts, conflicts between women and the feudal society, and other specific conflicts existing in real life, are inseparable from the development and change of real life, and it is a work of certain progressive significance.

The characters in the piece, with Liu Yi and Qiantang Jun being the most prominent, are portrayed distinctly and vividly. The author gives Liu Yi's good qualities, which not only reflects a kind of chivalrous thought of seeing justice, worrying about people's worries, and giving without expecting to be rewarded, but also embodies the strong character of the mighty and unyielding. The author's Qiantang Jun is just intestines inspired, rebuking characters, symbolizing the surging tide of the Qiantang River. The image of the Dragon Lady is the incarnation of a kind and sentimental girl in the Chinese feudal society, who is not bound by the feudal marriage system and resolutely pursues freedom and happiness. Her body reflects the ardent hope and spirit of women in real life at that time to strive for their own better future. The author severely criticizes the unreasonable and cruel feudal marriage system, and greatly promotes the autonomy of marriage.

The present work is quite unique in art, not only in its beautiful imagination and strict structure, but also in its refined and simple language. For example, the dialogues of the characters show different personalities: in the section on the return of the dragon lady to the palace, the questions and answers of the Qiantang and Dongting kings, one of them is so anxious that he can't stand it, and the other one is so fastidious and fast-talking. Another example is the depiction of the magnificent palace and various different life scenes, which precisely constitutes a distinctive life scene with various colors. In describing the image of Qiantangjun when he appeared as a red dragon, more hyperbole was used. Another example is the contrast between Liu Yi's image and Qiantang Jun's image, the contrast between Dongting Jun and Jingchuan Jun, and the contrast between Qiantang's broken music and your lord's return to the palace music, all of which add to the infectious power of the article. In addition, in the details, write the laughter, write the fragrance, write the clothes, is more colorful, as if to see.

This book has had a great influence on the theater of later generations. As far away as the end of the Tang Dynasty, there has been based on this piece of "Ling Ying biography", to the Jin people more offerings for miscellaneous plays, Dong Jieyuan "strings West Wing" in the "not Liu Yi ChuanShu" words, the Yuan Dynasty, ShangZhongXian more play for "Liu Yi ChuanShu" script, and rehashed into "Zhang Sheng boiled sea", the Ming Dynasty, HuangZhouZhong and the "LongXiaoJi", XuZhichang has the "OrangePuJi", the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, Huang Shuzong wrote Longxiaoji, Xu Zichang wrote Tangerine Puji, and in the Qing Dynasty, Li Yu wrote Mirage in the Mirage, all of which were taken from this story or rewritten and compiled. In the poetry of this story as an allusion to the use of many, how Zhongmo that is, "the old well tide deep Liu Yi words, sealing the book who knows the cave gentleman" line. Influenced by the later generation, there are also many imitations of the dragon lady and the world of human and divine love story, such as the famous "Liaozhai Zhiyi" has several similar works. Until modern times, there is "Zhang Yu Cooks the Sea" in the commentary opera, and "Dragon Lady Shepherds the Sheep" in the Yueju and Peking Operas. This moving story of man and god falling in love has become one of the traditional repertoires in different operas.