Personal Narrative and Local Tradition：A Study of Nurhaci Legends
The legend about the old Han king Nur Hachi is widely spread in the northeast region. These legends not only describe the heroic achievements of the Qing Emperor Rong Ma in his life, but also reflect the social life of the Jurchens at that time from different angles. As a case study from the perspective of oral tradition, this book aims to start from the formation of legendary texts, and provide a practical response to how to understand folk narrative literature around the interaction between personal narratives and local traditions. The legendary texts collected and organized by contemporary times have formed a group of legends centered on the oral, diversified literary genres and distinct layers. Compared with the scattered legendary texts, what converges here is a long form that combines its own artistic talents to tell a more complete story. This ongoing narrative activity provides a basis for us to capture the morphological transformation of folk narrative genres. Based on the perspective of understanding literary genres in the process of folklore, the author attempts to take the textual study of the legend of Nurhachi as an example to break the limitations of inherent literary thinking, and propose to use personal narrative as a breakthrough to penetrate local traditions, so as to explain the research path of folk culture.
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