On Narrative Patterns of Fairy Tales of Ming Dynasty and the Roots of Their Sprouting

Western Journey and A Legend of Gods, as the classical novels, represent respectively fiction in depiction and bizarrerie in fantasy. The former pursues the combination of divinity and humanity, in which the authors’ deep understanding of the time is permeated. While the latter focuses on the divinity, which shows the author’s intention to entertain his readers with new things. The two narrative patterns were both rooted in the cultural soil of Ming Dynasty.