| dc.description.abstract | The folk legend about Gui Sen Yang’’s life in Taiwan is one typical case of the government officials’’ exploits in the Ching Dynasty. The legends mainly describe not only his contributions he made when he was appointed as the head of Changhua County , but also Taiwanese people’’s evaluation and gratitude about him.
According to the historical records, the legends of Gui Sen Yang has been spread everywhere among people although he only stayed in Taiwan for less than three years. What’’s more the legends are related to his contributions to histrorical monuments of Changhua County . Consequently, many pieces of the relevant research focus on his contributions to histroric monuments of Changhua County .Besides the way of spoken language, the legends of Gui Sen Yang are spread by Taiwanese Opera and dramas, which provide us with a way to realize how people evaluate him .That’’s to say , we can acquire different evaluation about him and a variety of his images described by common people.
Therefore, the purpose of the introduction is to explain the reason why I do research on the legends of Gui SenYang . The information is mainly based on the books about folk stories ,which are adopted by the County Cultural Bureaus. In addition, I consult other information such as the folk stories, Taiwanese hand puppet shows (the Real Happiness Hand Puppet Theater), and histrionics (the Bright Pearl Taiwanese Opera Theater).In order to do research on the legends of Gui Sen Yang, I adopt collecting documents as the main method and field investigation as the adjutant method.
The second chapter is to analyze the background of Gui Sen Yang’s contributions to histroric monuments of Changhua County and the reason why his exploits become a legend. First of all, the records of Gui Sen Yang’s exploits are briefly described in the third chapter. Second, I try to analyze different legends of Gui Sen Yang and the content of his story. Last but not least, find out the differences between the records of Gui Sen Yang’’s real exploits and his well-known image. The keynote of the fourth chapter is the introduction of the content and situation of the performance given by . Taiwanese Puppet Shows and histrionics . In the fifth chapter, according to the chief plots of Gui Sen Yang’’s legends, we generalize features of his story. Furthermore, generalize a conclusion about history, culture, and education from the chapters given above to provide researchers in the future with relevant topics for advanced research . | en_US |