Abstract:

 Mr. Dong Naibin' s "Two Great Traditions of Lyric and Narrative in the History of the Chinese Literature", published in Shanghai' s Social Sciences of No. 3, 2010, proposes a theory of "the old Chinese character is produced, evolved and developed for record and narrative", and gives some authentic examples. This theory actually responds the two sayings of the "selfexplanatory" and the "associative compounds" in Ban Gu' s "SixScript Theory". Dong' s theory also develops the interpretation of such configuration as the "associative compounds" in Xu Shen' s "SixScript Theory", thus providing the research for the Chinese character with a new perspective. Based on the previous theories, this author tries to give a short analysis of the inherent features of the Chinese character such as the pictographic meaning, the combination of sound and meaning, and the threedimensional narrative, so as to respond Dong' s theory and display the long tradition and deep root of the Chinese literary narrative.