Dunhuang Bianwen and the Painting-Style Narrative Tradition in Chinese Chapter Novels
Classical Chinese chapter novels inherited the painting-style narrative tradition of Dunhuang Bian-wen.The embroidered image-style portrayal of characters in Bianwen narratives is reflected in Chinese pinghua and chapter novels as a traditional form of painting-like writing.The allegorical imagery of Bianwen symbolic paintings is transformed into metaphorical images in chapter novels.Bianwen,through the use of storytelling accompanied by paintings,transforms the panoramic portraits of Buddhist scriptures into multiple legendary stories,giving chapter novels a serial pictorial writing paradigm.The pictorial context of Bianwen creates a storytelling atmosphere,em-bodying the poetic and spiritual qualities of landscape and customs paintings,and interpreting the spiritual realm of chapter novels.The painting-style narrative of Bianwen propelled the secularization of supernatural novels,pio-neered the painting-style narrative tradition in Chinese popular novels,and influenced the stylization and typifica-tion of novel characters.The Buddhist stories in Bianwen texts have significant implications for chapter novels as story prototypes.The demon-subduing Bianwen provided a fundamental narrative model for Chinese chapter novels with its magical and illustrative storytelling strategies.
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