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The Historical Gaps Between Cai-Yong(蔡邕) and Cai-Erlang(蔡二郞)

Kang, Jong-Im 1

1동국대학교

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ABSTRACT

In modern perspective, a kind of faction of CaiYong(蔡邕), a Han Dynasty's character has the factor of other faction genres in which it is a combination of history and fiction and the public is enthusiastic about it. Some one thousand years later, ZhaozhenbuCaierlang(趙貞女蔡二郞)> in NanSong(南宋) Dynasty, shows the desperate vengence and grief of the public through the tragic conclusion of Caierlang(蔡二郞), who has abandoned his duty as a son and a husband for his own glory. Also, the time when the Pipaji(琵琶記) was written was chaotic when the Yuan(元) Dynasty faded and the Ming(明) Dynasty started so the housewives' fidelity, filial behavior, patience and sacrifice was essential and to etch the situation, the inevitable actions of Caivojie(蔡伯喈) did positive effect on the developing of paragraph. Additionally, even though Caivojie let down the morality, the desirable end he faced conveys a message that it was a proper award to Caivojie for he could not disobey his parents, authority and the Emperor. Accordingly, we make a conclusion that reproducing of the historical facts closely interacting with the public's freewheeling imagination is related with the public's desires. This is considered the most important background of historical drama of Cai-Yong and Cai-Erlang. The factual history does not exist in the story, but it is important that the fictional story has an apparent effect. It is that the mass production of gwageo can be extremely inhuman and also how it could be desperately humane when used to make order for the new dynasty. These factions that include general cognizance and was enthusiastically popular might be more meaningful than the historical truth.

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