Sima Qian lionizes youxia(a person adept in martial arts and given to chivalrous conduct) for the first time in his Shi Ji,and makes a systematic elaboration of his view of you xia,defining its spiritual features with connotations of personality and quality and denotations of classification.

Actor or Paladin?——To Culturally Interpret LIU Xiang-lian s Status and Personality;

The theme of paladin poetry in Wei and Jin dynasty serves as four tools: symbol of poets spiritual pursuit,media to demonstrate individual value,ode to traditional paladin spirit and the description of leisurely life in the name of paladin.

In history, the paladin appeared three status: triggerman, noble and civilian.

The roaming swordsmen and the Forbidden Army in the Tang Dynasty were closely related to each other.

There is a very special relationship between knight-errant and Chinese antiquity literature.

This thesis discusses all sorts of knight-errant literary works before Tang Dynasty, generalizes all sorts of these work s different feature, and concludes knight-errant literary works developing vein during the early days.