From Yuan Zaju to Novel——On the Inheritance of Ethnic Culture in the Hundred Volume Version of Journey to the West
The western journey story of the Yuan Dynasty drama has influenced the creation of Wu Cheng'en's hundred chapter novel Journey to the West in both material selection and narrative form,and there have been many research achievements in this field.In fact,on the basis of taking"vulgarity"as the core of text creation,Wu Cheng'en has also made considerable inheritance and improvement on the factors of ethnic cultural integration and exchange that appear in the western journey stories of the Yuan Dynasty's Zaju,making the hundred chapter version of Journey to the West a classic Chinese literary work that embodies"elegance"in"vulgarity"and combines literary appreciation and ideological depth.Studying the relationship between the western journey stories of Yuan Zaju and the hundred volume Journey to the West is beneficial for us to further grasp the multicultural and ethnic cultural integration ideas contained in Chinese literary works,which has enlightening significance for today's literary creation.
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