The mysterious narration tradition of ancient Chinese novels has a Humanities,long history,and anthroposcopy is one of the mysterious cultures that contributed to this narrative tradition.It's not only a magic of precogni-tion,but also a value judgment system and destiny view of people,forming u-nique literary texts.Anthroposcopy novels were early collected in Taiping Guangji,reflecting the ancient novels'mysterious narration affected by anthro-poscopy before the Song Dynasty,especially during the Tang and Five Dynas-ties.Based on the text analysis of Taiping Guangji,it can be seen that its narrative subject is the supernatural wizard and anthroposcopy.The mysterious narration implies people's desire to explore fate,gain benefit and avoid harm,and the author's intention to promote certain view of destiny.The mysterious culture drives the authors to narrate supernatural stories,but the expansion of the novel's plot is restricted by the author's single intention to promote mys-tery.Anthroposcopy novels of GuangJi are works that formed in the middle stage of ancient novels'mysterious narration tradition,broadening the creation way previously only aimed at documenting facts and recording misterious sto-ries,showing the evolution of the ancient novels's mysterious narration,and lay-ing the foundation for anthroposcopy to become a functional events of the mys-terious narration in later novels.
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