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"Life of King Gesar," the story outline

"Life of King Gesar" tells a story: Once upon a time, natural disasters throughout the Tibetan areas, demons run amok, and common people being poisoned. Merciful Bodhisattva salvation out to Oliver, to send a request to the Buddha the son of God, down to earth fell monsters die prematurely. Son of God, vows to push Pakistan to the Tibetan Karma Watts, the Tibetan king to do black hair - that of King Gesar. In order to be able to complete Xiang Yao Demon King Gesar, the strong and the weak, for the benefit of the people of the sacred mission entrusted to him the authors of the epic special character and extraordinary ability to mold him into gods, dragons, and read (the original Tibetan religion Li in a God) one of the three semi-divine hero. Gesar come to earth, the number was framed, but because of his own strength and God's protection of the heavens, not only have not been behind the atrocities, but to kill the evil demons and ghosts. Gesar from the date of birth, they begin to people from harm, for the benefit of the people. 5 years old, Gesar and his mother moved to the banks of the Yellow River, 8 years old, Ling tribes migrated to this. 12 years old, the epic race meeting in the tribal victory and get the throne, while married to Sen Jiang Zhumuweifei. Since then, the epic would begin to Tianwei, East West, to discuss cutting, four expeditions, the yield of the invasion of the North Ridge Country demons to overcome the country's white account of Hall King, Jiang Wang Satin country, the door red Wang Xin domain , large eating Noel King, Dan King Kaqie Song otolith of red, I wish to shore Guiwang so ancient, who has the yield of the ten "cases" (the ancient Tibetan tribes and small to help countries) demons in the yield of the earth after Gesar story rather, Guo Farm with his mother, Princess Sen Jiang Zhu Mu, etc. back to heaven with the grand scale of the epic "King Gesar" is over.

From the "Life of King Gesar," the story structure, the vertical development of Tibetan society summarizes the history of the two major historical period, nearly one hundred large and small horizontal inclusive tribes, nations and regions, vertical and horizontal thousands of miles, meaning a broad , the grand structure; divided into three parts: first, born, that is part of King Gesar was born; second expedition, the epic process of subduing demons; third, the end of the epic return to heaven. Three parts in the second part of the "campaign" the most abundant content, length and most ambitious. In addition to the history of the famous four fell monsters - "North fell monsters", "Huo Ling War," "defense of the Salt Sea," "Ridge Gate War", there are 18 large, 18 cases and 18 careen, each important to the story and every war constitute a relatively independent of the epic. "Life of King Gesar" is like a universe can hold a large bag, a literature and art and aesthetics large garden. It is rooted in the fertile ground of social life at that time, not only outlines the major stages of the development of Tibetan history and process, reveals the deep and broad social life, but also created hundreds of characters. In which the hero is both positive and negative tyrant, whether men or women, whether old or young, are distinctive portrait of the image highlighted, giving the left an indelible impression, especially on the epic-led The congregation was the most excellent description of the hero image, thus becoming immortal classic Tibetan literature. Their own language through the characters, action and story to achieve the shape characters, is the "epic" epic one of the features. Therefore, although the number of people, but do not give the feeling of similarity and conceptualization. Is written with the hero, but they are different, write Gesar is the vision, leadership style; written Explorer is the king of wit, generosity, grace the elderly. Jiacha staunch bravery was written, Dan Ma is Zhiyong both. All outstanding personality, all of them vivid: the characterization of women is graceful language matter to lifelike characters, for example, the history of Temple "Huo Ling war" of the State Department described the three Hall-Ling Wang Xingbing try to steal the country Hargeisa Doll's Princess Zhu Mu, it is because White Hall State School Hall, off King Country, Four to go anywhere to be found the world beautiful black crow brought him a message:

Beautiful girl in the Ridge State
She will step forward to the value of a hundred horses,
The value of her to step back one hundred fat sheep;
She than the sun warm winter,
Cooler than the moon summer she;
Bianshen race aromatic flowers.
Swarms of bees around the side;
Although numerous human beauty,
Only she was with the king;
King Gesar, to the north,
Now she is defensive availability.

"Life of King Gesar," rooted in the social life, and has a very rich ancient Tibetan literature, particularly the solid foundation of ancient folklore, the epic "King Gesar" before the birth of the Tibetan literary category, particularly civil literary category, such as myths, legends, stories, poetry has been complete, and rich in content, quantity range. Therefore, the "Life of King Gesar," whether it is in the works subject, creation, the work material, performance practices, etc.; or ideological content, ideology, religion, customs, etc., are from the previous works of folk literature learned to adequate nutrition, inherited the fine tradition of folk literature and its various types of material are to be seen in the epic. In rhetoric, the "King Gesar" cited numerous Tibetan Proverbs, the book of Proverbs to accommodate the sheer number of amazing. Some of the original references, some of them after processing, such as:

If the spring planting in March,
Autumn Valley in March but difficult to six;
If the cows in winter, March,
March difficult to milk the cows in spring;
Without regular horse breeding,
Every enemy battle hard to ride.
Although the hungry do not eat rotten chaff,
Mustang but the nature of white-lipped;
Although drinking ditch water is not thirsty,
But ferocious nature of bison;
While not throwing bitter tears,
But the nature of man named Hero;

"Life of King Gesar", the retained variety, a large number of like words such as: "Like Wine," "Like Mountain," like tea "," Mazen "," sword like this, "" Like clothing, "" armor like "and so on, the famous wine like this:

I hand-side of this bowl of wine.
History of backing to say;
Jasper Blue yao highest heaven, the
Yulong blue skies roar.
Power shiny red glory,
Slightest drizzle dew stream.
Nectar fine with this clean,
Earth earth brewing wine.
The first grain to brewing wine,
Five open Jinpen Po land.
Earth Jinpen grain length,
Autumn Kailian cut crops.
Pianniu to fight side by side field
Pull Luzhou Gululu.
Young aspen shovel the Valley,
Chaff floating wind quartet.
Yang put into the net four libraries,
Full library full lun barley grain.
Boiled barley wine full of joy.
Flower of Chinese kitchen first erected.
Good luck rotating copper pots,
White towel to wipe the pot.
Supernatant was boiled down green trees,
Church kitchen fire burned hurry.
Spread blankets on the cooked barley,
Mix with the essence of wine song.
Wine needs to be stuffed in a year
Called the nectar of sweet wine.
January is the month brewing wine
Cold dew on the wine name.
One day a Japanese brewing wine
Japanese liquor called nectar spin.
......
Drink the right Executive,
Open-minded than the big.
Timid drank on the battlefield,
Fierce assault to kill the enemy.
......
Benefits of drinking the wine,
This lack of Tibetan wine,
This is the king of Queen's wine,
This is the worry of people enjoyable wine.
This is encouraging people to dance wine,
......

In addition, the "King Gesar" Folk literature or material baskets, many of its elements taken from folk songs, myths and stories, in turn, later became a literary, artistic creation, collection material, rich themes borrowed garden. Later developments such as folk songs and dances are a lot of tunes from "King Gesar", sing some songs Gesar is the direct transfer couples. Another example is the rich theme of myths and legends and folk tales, also derived in the "Life of King Gesar", the famous "seven brothers in the story" Seven Brothers is the story of the building for people to cover the story of King Gesar interwoven with a Department, seamless, side by side. Another example is the large number of unique painting and sculpture, also "Life of King Gesar," the story is based, coming murals, or to protect the law of God as King Gesar, the sculpture to be dedicated to its body. "Life of King Gesar" using a combination of prose and poetry style, in which the poetry section, in the history of Tibetan literature in the history of poetry, plays the past and the role of ancient and modern communication, it is manifested in the ideological, rhetorical devices, particularly prominently above the metrical poetry. For example:

Tiger Wang blooming good gorgeous,
For roaming to Tan Xian Wei Lin
What is the use the text was not a spot?
Good gorgeous young wild yak,
To dance angle board Blackrock Mountain,
What is not a young dance with?
Wild Horse good gorgeous white-lipped,
For Mercedes-Benz Strolling grasslands
What is not a white-lipped with Ben?
Huo Yingxiong Karasawa Huamei,
For the contest came to Ridge battlefield,
What is the use than not a Dragon?

This kind of poetry in the "Life of King Gesar" in everywhere, everywhere, it is not only inherited the Tibetan poems times the pattern of multi-stage loop, but also broke through the mechanics the Tibetan pronunciation of six sentences, a sentence of eight-character verses sound. This multi-stage loop body of metrical poetry, in the eleventh century the basic shape and fixed before, until now, no big changes. Tibetan folk songs, narrative poems, long songs, lyrical story of the poetry, Tibetan writers and scholars in the poetry of poetry and is widely used as the most popular Tibetan poetry, the most important maxim.

The use of poetry and prose epic, combining singing and Road Shiraai way real life stories, myths, poems, fables, proverbs, sayings and other integrated, a major integration of Tibetan folk culture.