The Research of Su Shi''s Fable

In the discussion of literature history, people must discuss about Su Shi''s poems and literary works that present many important meanings by this outstanding writer, poet. Due to literature history focuses on the main stream of the mentioned era, people seldom pay attention to the importance of fable which also affects the development of literature much from far away Pre-Qin Dynasty.n fact, not only Su Shi''s poems that definitely stand for important milestone to the North-Sung dynasty, his fables also bring much significant impact to the literary history and play a very important role to connect the previous accomplishments and set up the new paragon for future. Therefore, this thesis focuses on Su Shi''s achievement of fable to replenish the insufficient research in the view of literary history. On the one hand, this thesis also would like to understand Su Shi more through the research of his fable to find out some inside and deep meanings of this important poet, writer in the literary history.n the first chapter, due to there is no clear definition of what fable is, this thesis would like to set up the definition firstly to clarify the research range. By the reference of Zhuang Zi''s explanation and the definition from Mr. Chen Puqing, "A fable is the story that the author would like to reflect something else". Therefore, the first chapter takes this definition to decide the research range and analysis criteria.n the second chapter, this thesis would like to research Su Shi''s writing background. Through the external environment and internal personal factors, this thesis is trying to find out Su Shi''s writing motive and the main causes to establish his writing style. ables expressed many aspects of its inside meanings including thinking value, life purpose, political ideas…etc. The third chapter of this thesis will focus on Su Shi''s academic thinking system to provide another point of view except his poems, essay, and theory articles. This chapter would like to observe and study the interactions between Su Shi''s thinking orientation comparing to other different thinking system through the deep studying of the content, format, and inner thinking in Su Shi''s fables.rom the content, style and performance practices of the points, the fourth chapter deals with the artistry of Su Shi''s fable. By the content analysis of his fable, this thesis would like to come out his inside mental reality and to know the external environment around him. By the analysis of his writing style and methodology, here also would like to dedicate some information for the reference of the following fable writing and innovation s the conclusion of this thesis, the fifth chapter is going to set up a suitable position for Su Shi''s fable articles in the literary history. After studying, Su Shi''s has significant humorous character in his deep mind. Even there are various styles of his fables, but major of all is still written by his spirit of humor. This is also his strong style among all the fable works in the fable history. Owing to, this chapter also takes this chance to analysis the developments and evolution between jokes and fables, and would like to find something new to show the unique position of Su Shi''s humorous fables in the literary history.able has not only the elegant sense of philosophy but also has the sense of art. Meanwhile, through the fable content, we can also find the significant character of the author. Due to the limitation of my limited capability, this thesis can''t describe very well for all goodness of the fable. So, this thesis here, only would like to dedicate the preliminary studying for this topic firstly, and would like to provide the minor reference for all the following people who is interested in this fable studying.