Analyses of dream imagery of short stories of Tang Dynasty

The dream is subconscious expression,and it is the strange refractive reflection which the actual life acts on people′s brains.The dream imagery which is depicted,is often the artistic media that the writer uses to reveal the personage inner world and express its subjective emotion.The dream originates from the actual life,and it also exceeds it.As one kind of cultural phenomenon,the dream is brought into literary works continuously from old times until now.Some dream-world versions are also recorded in short stories of Tang Dynasty,which reflect social life of Tang Dynasty in a distinctive way.Studying these versions,we could understand the society of Tang Dynasty from many sides.From the cultural connotation contained in short dream stories of Tang dynasty,it mainly embodies some aspects such as the examination and join politics dream,the distinguished love and marriage dream,the accusing filth and upholding justice dream,the thinking freedom and conveying feeling dream and so on.