Study on Chinese folk metamorphose story of “die for love”

• Main Authors: Hsiu-o Su, 蘇秀娥
• Other Authors: Deng-Shun Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15309379679877580136

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 國語文學系國語文教學碩士班 === 97 === So-called “metamorphose story of “die for love” ” mainly describes the literature writings of pursuing freedom of love and marriage in addition to stories of lovers have to separate. Main roles in these stories did not hesitate to die for love; strange phenomenon showed after they died. Most folks believed this phenomenon came from the spirit after the death of lovers. Actually these people were feeling sorry for sacrificed lovers and wanted to compensate it psychologically. Many folk metamorphose story of “die for love” in the ancient literature writings and records collected nowadays. The investigation and analysis on common development track of people’s lives can help us to understand people’s mentality and value facet. Therefore, our study includes ancient literature writings and materials collected nowadays. We choose “Chinese Folk stories collection” published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co.,Ltd. as our main text for research and analysis in order to probe in depth the style and meaning of folk metamorphose story of “die for love”. Our study content is classified into five chapters. Chapter one is “introduction”; we describe research motive, goal, research results of predecessor, range of our study and research method. Chapter two is tracing the source of metamorphose in folk metamorphose story of “die for love”; we intend to discuss the definition and conception background of metamorphose in addition to the metamorphose stories in the myth and legend. We discuss through the mythical point of view because that myth contains the life thoughts of the folks; we can understand primitive people’s opinion of death. Chapter tree is analyzing the content of metamorphose story of “die for love”; we explain the plot model and metamorphose types. Chapter four is the idea and art contain of metamorphose story of “die for love”; we hope to examine the value facet and art characteristics of stories. Chapter five is conclusion; we do summary on each chapter and reach the result to explain the historical positioning and era definition of metamorphose story of “die for love”