Research on Ancient Legends in Luo Mi's "road History" of the Southern Song Dynasty
by Chen Jiaqi
About This Novel
"History of the Road" is a general history of ancient times. It uses the tenth century of Wei Shu as the chronology. It believes that the world was opened to Confucius and Huolin, and a total of "two million two hundred and seventy-six thousand years" passed. Under the tenth century view of time, Luo Bi added fifty-eight ancient emperors to the imperial line of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, narrating the ancient history from the creation of the world to the Xia Dynasty. The concept of ancient history behind the imperial lineage in "History of the Road" demonstrates Luo Mi's thinking on ancient history and cultural processes, and has a profound influence on the ancient history writings and mythological novels of future generations. From the perspective of literary research, Luo Mi reinterpreted the symbols of mythical characters/symbols and aligned them with history. From the perspective of historical research, "History of the Road" constructs the development of ancient history through prophecies and Taoist historical views. It is a general cultural history recorded through the process of "historicization of myths." This book attempts to analyze the significance of the ordering of the imperial lineage in "History of the Road" and its evolution from "mythology" to "history", and then reposition the value of "History of the Road" in academic history from a more macro-historical and literary perspective.
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