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Appeared to the notion of traditional chinese values of the story about predicting the future of 《Tai Ping Guang Ji》

Park Mi-ae 1

1중국사회과학원 문학연구소

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　The five hundred rolls of Tai Ping Guang Ji (Extensive records compiled in the Tai ping years) is China’s earliest collection of classical novel which was compiled by Li Fang and other eleven people from the order of the emperor Tai Zong in two years of Tai ping xing guo in the Song Dynasty (A.D.977) and completed in the follow in year (A.D.978). It includes nearly 7000 stories from the Pre-Qin and Han Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, also can be said to be avery large collection of narrative text in content and quantity. Therefore, academic circles usually take this book as “the source of the novel”. It provides valuable information for researchers of Chinese classical novels. 　Tai Ping Guang Ji was introduced to the Korea in the Koryo period and was published into detailed section, annotation and so on various forms of abridgment and translation in the Joseon Times, promoting the generation and development of Korea’s classical novels. As a result, it has high historical value not only in China but also in Korea’s literary research history. 　Through the in-depth analysis of various traditional concept contained in the “predict the future” narrative of Tai Ping Guang Ji, this paper discusses various Chinese ideology and concept, namely logic, value, belief and other psychological problems when Tai Ping Guang Ji was widely popular. Especially, from the three factors of “predict the future” narrative --- predict the content, predict the process, predict the way this three point of view, it studies people’s fatalism, secularism, the cycle of world outlook, the social life concept which contains morality, happiness and values, and the scientific concept which involves nature, geography, math, and medical science. 　All in all, from the ideological background above, this research studies the ideological and cultural significance and value contained in the “predict the future” narrative in the traditional natural life culture carrier Tai Ping Guang Ji, also discussing the important meaning and reference of Tai Ping Guang Ji to us who live in a modern civilized society.

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