Tentative Study on Chinese Ancient Chivalric Novel

Chivalric spirit is one of the important respects of the kind nature of human being. The paper, through outlining the confusionists, Mohists, Taoists and Legalists, the four ideological schools of pre-Qin Period and chivalrous viewpoints of "Historical Records" early Han Dynasty, demonstrates the abundance of Chinese ancient chivalric resource. Just on this basis were bom the earliest Chinese chivalric novels, "Ganjiang and Moye" and "Liji", which initiated the source of Chinese chivalric novel. This paper makes a detailed analysis on the contents and artistic characteristic of the two novels, and points out their historical limitations.