On Dream-depiction In "San Yan" and "Liang Pai

Dreaming depiction enjoys a long history in the traditional ancient Chinese literature. However, due to the fact that most dream-depictions deviated from reality and were full of superstitious beliefs, dream-depiction failed to get high comments. There are more than sixty stories depicting dreams in San Ya and Liang Pai which accounted for one third of all the stories. However, few people had made researches of the dream-depiction in them. Though most of the dream-depiction are scattered among the stories and only few of the stories totally depict dreams, it is still worthwhile to study their cultural values and their narrative functions.