关键词: 道家文化, 意象, 叙事功能, 通俗话语

Abstract:

The animated film White Snake is adapted from one of the four major Chinese folktales, Madame White Snake, but with a brand-new narrative, which is widely praised for its fresh and elegant aesthetic style. The concept of "image" is believed to have originated from pre-Qin philosophy and become an important theoretical category in Chinese poetics and other artistic fields after the Six Dynasties. In this film, the images containing Taoist cultural connotation are called "the Taoist cultural images". Different from the narrative analysis of Western classical structuralism, this article, by examining the narrative function of Taoist cultural images in the film, shows that narrative image as derived from Chinese classical poetry and novels can construct a unique Chinese narrative pattern, and thus could express the popular understanding of traditional Taoism in Chinese contemporary mass media.

Key words: Taoist culture, images, narrative function, popular expression