The Paradigm Change in the Research of Historical Stories in the Past Hundred Years
How to understand the abundant historical stories in pre-Qin China has always been a concerned issue in the academic community.During the pluralistic development of the ideological trend of historiography,the research paradigm of historical stories has changed correspondingly.A hundred years ago,Gu Jiegang built up the paradigm of explaining the composition of ancient history from the perspective of researching story.The analysis of the changes of Meng Jiang's story has provided a practical example of the evolutionary view of history.With the development of cultural anthropology,the motif,the structure and the symbols were involved in the research of historical stories.Scholars began to conduct research on historical stories by group and cross-cultural investigation.After the rise of postmodernism,scholars tried to deconstruct the meaning of the structure.They gave up exploring history hidden in the stories,and turned to using memory or knowledge to replace it.Focusing on the two-way interaction between historical stories and social life is an important feature of this paradigm.
Historical StoriesGushi BianCultural AnthropologyPostmodernismChange of Paradigm