The Study of Cross-species Marriage Story in Folk Tales:A Comparison of Fox-wife Images in Chinese and Japanese Cultures
Autor: | Chen, Yi-fen, 陳彝芬 |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
Popis: | 100 The major purpose of this paper is to study the fox-wife story in folk tales, explore its story origin & type, and analyze differences and characteristics of fox-wife presented in China & Japan from culture perspective. Basically, folk tales are oral literature created by the public and drawn from their life. That makes them more close to civilian’s daily living. Folk tales always come with illusions. But every story has the specific elements and the central idea. These specific elements and the central idea of each folk tale are not affected and limited by people, events, time, locations, and subjects. In other words, the presentations of folk tales are one type of thought which could cross time & space. It becomes a methodology to investigate the common thinking of each race through the study of wide-spread folk tales. The man married fox-wife stories, the cross-species romance, are wide spared in China and Japan. But, the similar fox-wife stories come up with different endings and fox-wife’s images due to the diversity of environment and cultures between China and Japan. The character of fox-wife is personified in both Chinese and Japanese cultures, but the fox-wife’s images are totally different. The Chinese fox-wife is considered with social common senses, therefore suitable for living in the human family. She also has opportunity to grow old together with human. Japanese fox-wife has a human appearance and kind heart of loving family, but she would leave human society and return to nature, eventually. The diversity of fox-wife images represents the difference of nature views between Chinese & Japanese races. It also results in the different fox-wife stories even under the same story frame. Keywords: Folk tales, Cross-species marriage, Fox-wife, Chinese and Japanese cultures, China and Japan comparison |
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