If you ask which China literature has the greatest influence on Japan, many friends will blurt it out-Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In addition to many well-known politicians in Japan who like the Three Kingdoms, glory group's games with the theme of the Three Kingdoms have been selling well throughout East Asia for more than ten years. However, there is such a work that has influenced Japanese literature from form to content, from appearance to spirit, and many stage plays and film and television dramas have also been adapted from its content. It can be said that its influence on Japanese literature and art is even greater than the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is puzzling that such a work, although well-known in Japan, is rarely known in China. Because it has long been banned, and it is the first banned book in the history of China. Why is "Cut the Lights Mandarin" banned? Qu You, the author of "A New Story of Cutting Lights", lived in the turbulent era of the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. Although he is knowledgeable, he is out of date. At that time, the economic development in Jiangnan stimulated the activity of folk thought. After Qu You's processing, some anecdotes spread among the people came out, based on the ordinary life of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. At the beginning of the novel, not only peddlers and pawns, but also local tyrants and squires were obsessed with it. In the early Ming Dynasty, Cheng Zhu's Neo-Confucianism was regarded as the dominant thought of governing the country. Imperial academy, who was in charge of training talents for the imperial court at that time, naturally used the Four Books and Five Classics as teaching materials. At that time, the dean of imperial academy, the highest institution of learning in Daming, was Li Shimin, who advocated "integrity and honesty" and seemed to be an old-school Confucian scholar. Li Shimin can become such a senior official, naturally dare not neglect, and work conscientiously. Talking about the four books and five classics in class is also full of energy and eloquent. Helpless, let him vomit, students are always wandering too empty. He deeply reviewed whether there was a problem with his teaching methods, so he decided to go deep into the students to find out. He went to the dormitory to communicate at night and asked what books everyone was reading, Spring and Autumn Period or the Book of Songs. I didn't expect that the book that students read the most was actually the new words of cutting lights. President Li borrowed a book from a student and went home to read it at night. Looking at it, he felt more and more wrong, so he wrote a letter to the emperor overnight and rushed to the palace to report to the emperor the next day. The main meaning of President Li's mourning is that "cutting lights and playing official roles" is a spiritual opium that will corrode the soul. In order to ensure the correct values of the Ming Dynasty, such books must be banned. I can't help but say that President Li has a unique vision. Cut the lights and talk through time and space, break the boundaries of time and space, let the ancients talk to the present, and the dead talk to the living. Nature is a strange thing under the guise of "". However, the novel itself is fictional, and we should see the social significance behind these fictional stories. Many articles in "Talk about Cutting Lights" are written about ghosts, while "A Tale of Tengmu Garden" expresses the author's nostalgia for the past, shows the author's deep sympathy for the fate of ladies in troubled times, and reflects the author's broad humanistic care through Tengmu's wonderful experience of meeting and staying with Zheng Fanghua, the late imperial concubine of the Song Dynasty, for three years. The Man in Green eulogizes the young men and women's pursuit of love freedom through the ghost love story between the woman in green and Zhao Yuan, and exposes the cruel behavior of the traitor Jia Sidao. The former focuses on expressing the sense of historical rise and fall and expressing sympathy for the fate of maids; The latter integrated the political connotation of anti-power rape into ghost love. This is exactly what President Li, an old-school Confucian scholar who is just "stubborn in nature and takes the world as his responsibility", can't understand. Under the influence of Neo-Confucianism, President Li praised "respecting morality and making a name for himself", and advocated that literature and art should serve politics. The value of Xinhua is a profound reflection on the traditional Confucian ideal of practical application. In addition, because the author of the novel lived in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, his works described the influence of the development of commercial culture in Jiangnan towns at the end of Yuan Dynasty on the citizens, which was branded with a specific era at the end of Yuan Dynasty and revealed a different concept from the tradition. Dean Li thinks that these things written by Qu You are not satirizing the present, but praising the Yuan Dynasty in disguise? So, at the initiative of Dean Li, the book "Cutting Lights in Mandarin" was banned. Cut the Lamp in Mandarin and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio In the dull political environment at that time, the appearance of Cut the Lamp in Mandarin aroused the love and resonance of countless readers, even the Confucian scholars in imperial academy read it. There are many imitators in later generations. During the Yongle period, there was a story of Li Zhen cutting lights in Luling; During Xuande period, there was an effective collection of works by Zhao Bi. During the Wanli period, there was a story about Shao looking for a lamp. Besides imitation, vernacular novels and operas are also influenced by Cut the Lights. Even Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio was influenced by it. Lu Xun said that serial novels are based on the "legendary method", that is, they combine the characteristics of fiction, grotesque and novelty with grotesque themes, and then reflect the realistic social background. This technology was obviously initiated by Qu You. The most direct thing is that many stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio can see the shadow of "cutting the lights and saying something new". For example, Textual Research Biography and Xie Wen Xie Ren Biography both describe the story of a scholar who was honest before his death, lacked talent, and became an official in hades after his death. Although the story of "Double Lights" in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is different from that in Peony Lantern, there is a similar scene. The story of "Cutting Lights" appeared on the fifteenth night. At the end of the night, I saw a maid with a double peony lamp, followed by a beautiful woman. "The second time, the female ghost and the man jointly endangered the people, and it was also the girl who carried the double-headed peony lamp. The first appearance of the double lights of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio was also accompanied by the appearance of the heroine. " Nothing, the double maids are holding the lamp, and it has collapsed. "The second appearance was that the men and women were still outside the village when they broke up, and the double maids held the lights." Since Pu Songling borrowed the scene of Peony Lantern, he naturally didn't let go of the plot. After reading Peony Lantern, we will find that it is simply a replica of the most famous story "Painted Skin" in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. The story is that a man and a woman meet, and then see the color, and then they are invited to his house, and they are warned on the way. After the man is killed, the woman is punished. Putting the scene and plot of an article in two different stories, Pu Songling's flexible skills are very clever, but there is no doubt that he was influenced by Cut the Lights. The New Theory of Cutting Lights plays a connecting role between the strange tales in Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. It is a summary of strange novels such as Search, which represents the peak of this kind of strange novels in ancient times, and also affects the writing of strange stories from a strange studio, opening the precedent of strange novels in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The reason why Newspeak of Cutting Lights is popular in China and South Korea is that it is banned. The new saying of cutting lights is rarely circulated in China, and many Japanese people don't know it. However, Qu You, Li Shimin and others would not have thought that this novel did not lose its charm because it was banned. This banned novel aroused the interest of people in the Li Dynasty in North Korea, and later spread to Japan and Vietnam, which had a great influence on Asian literature and became a rare case in the history of China literature communication. Although there are many contacts between Korean Peninsula and China, they are not exposed to novel style because of their great fame in Tang poetry and Song poetry. Jin Sixiu, a famous writer in the Li Dynasty of North Korea, imitated Xinhua and created Xinhua in Jin Ao. Since then, the Korean peninsula has its first novel. After the publication of Jin Ao Xinhua, the title of each article has become the prototype of the title of Korean novels. Influenced by the official tune of cutting lights, most of the protagonists in Jin Ao's official tune are gifted scholars and beautiful women. They fell in love at first sight, broke through the secular barriers, and finally, lovers got married. This writing style has become a fixed pattern of Korean romance novels, and it is almost the same routine in today's Korean dramas. However, just like cutting the official language, the official language of Jin 'ao has disappeared in China, and both works were discovered in Japan. It can be seen that Japan is very careful to preserve China culture, whether from the core of China or the edge of South Korea. Japanese native literature is naturally influenced by "Newspeak of Cutting Lights", from Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and A Wheat to Ancient and Modern Notes on English Caozhi and Rain and Moon Tales, there is a shadow of "Newspeak of Cutting Lights". In particular, The Peony Pavilion, one of the three major Japanese mystery novels, is actually derived from the Peony Pavilion mentioned above. The content and plot are that people fall in love with female ghosts, and lovesickness becomes a disease, which is seen through by others and has appeared, but in the end they can't control themselves, and people finally choose to be with ghosts. Peony lanterns are standard for female ghosts. Peony Lantern is one of the most popular themes in horror movies and stage plays, and it is also one of the most famous and influential mystery stories in Japan. Not only Japan, South Korea, but also Vietnam have imitations that have a great influence on their literary works. Ruan Yu, a famous writer, imitated "Cutting the Lights and Newspeak" and created "Legendary Essays". Cutting the Lights Newspeak was banned in China, but it did not hinder its irreplaceable position in literature. An American scholar said, "Cutting the Lantern Newspeak" is the earliest classical novel with transnational influence in the history of China, and its literary dissemination value is very great. It is not difficult to see that for a long time, China, as the main exporter of East Asian cultural circles, has made indelible and outstanding contributions to the prosperity of ancient civilizations in East Asia and the development of civilizations in neighboring countries. As "Little China", Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese are the direct beneficiaries of the spread of China culture overseas. In today's society, many young people are "Hahan" and "Jingri". I don't know that all the things that are sought after come from myself. What we really need to do is to explore the highlights of those traditional cultures on the premise of building cultural self-confidence; We should not only boldly absorb the achievements of some sinologists in Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, but also combine our own traditions to create dazzling works in the new era.