Kings is 60,000 lines long, and its narrative content spans more than 4,000 years, from the beginning to the end of the Persian Empire in 65 1 year. This paper briefly describes the life stories of 50 emperors and princes in Persian history, and brings together myths, legends and historical stories spread among the people for thousands of years. It can be roughly divided into three parts: ① myths and legends. Among them, the most wonderful story is the legend of Kavi, the blacksmith. He led the people's uprising against Zuhak, the tyrant snake king, and created the images of many heroic insurgents. (2) The story of the soldier. It accounts for about half of the book's length and is the essence of the book. Highlighted the glorious life of national hero rustam and condemned the tyrant's rule. ③ Historical stories. Described the historical events of Sassanian dynasty before the Arab invasion. In particular, it vividly describes the deeds of Emperor bahram Gul, the rebellion of General bahram Chuping and the history of Mazdak Uprising.
Kings was written in the era of Persian patriotism, and there were many ideas against foreign aggression and rule. They not only praised the warriors and heroes who were loyal to the motherland, defended the motherland and safeguarded the reunification of the motherland, but also expressed the people's desire for the kindness of the wise monarch by condemning the tyranny and cruelty of the tyrant. The group images of many patriotic fighters vividly depicted in the book reflect these ideals of the people. They all have their own characteristics, and their central figure is rustam, a model of ancient Persian warriors and a national hero. Rustam was born into a Persian royal family and a warrior family. His grandfather Sam and his father Zari are both world-famous warriors. He was brave since he was a child, and when he was young, he killed the white elephant, a monster that ordinary people could not subdue. When I grew up, I made many extraordinary achievements in fighting against foreign enemies and defending the motherland. I was the first warrior in Persia. Even when he was old and weak, he killed his son by mistake in order to defend his motherland. He was involved in complicated internal struggles, always loyal to the emperor, and dared to call a spade a spade in the face of overbearing rulers. The poet used almost all the words to praise rustam.
The king is a collection of ancient Persian folk literature. It provided rich creative materials for later poets and writers. 11~1Almost all Persian poetry works in the 3rd century are based on or created on the king. In addition, it also had a great influence on Arabic literature, Turkish literature, Armenian literature and Georgian literature. Kings rarely used Arabic characters, and almost all of them wrote in Persian, thus establishing the historical position of Persian.
The earliest foreign translation of Kings is Arabic. Translator bhandari translated some of them into Arabic on 1223. Turkish prose translation appeared in15th century. /kloc-after the 0/8th century, there appeared translations of poems and essays in English, German, French, Russian, Italian and Latin. Chernyshevski praised Ferdowsi as a first-rate poet on par with Milton, Shakespeare, Boccaccio and Dante. Russian orientalist Rukowski and English poet Arnold both wrote narrative poems with the tragedies of rustam and Solabo as their themes. 1934, the Iranian held the Millennium celebration of the birth of Ferdowsi. At the end of 1990, Iran followed the resolution adopted by UNESCO and held an international academic conference to commemorate 1000 Ferdowsi Wang Kaiguo Memorial Day.
From 65438 to 0934, China Literature Magazine introduced Ferdowsi and his king in detail. Subsequently, Zheng Zhenduo, a China scholar, also spoke highly of Ferdowsi and other kings in his book "Literature Outline". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), rustam, Solabo and Selected Works of the King were published in Chinese.
Written by Persian poet Ferdowsi, it is written in Persian ([Shah's name]), also known as the Book of the King. After the Arabs invaded Persia in the 6th century, "Shubi Thought" rose in Persia, that is, nationalism. Ferdowsi collected folktales in Persian and wrote them at the beginning of 1 1 century, which had a great influence on the development of Persian. Some people think that the lyric poems of the king, Hafez, the complete works of Sadi and Moravi's narrative philosophy poems are the four pillars of Persian literature.