The Daily Communication And Cultural Interaction Between The Diviners And Scholar-Officials In The Song Dynasty

The article focuses on the daily communication and cultural interaction between the diviners and scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty.It Sorts out the general situation of the diviner group in Song Dynasty,and the daily communication,poetry and essay interactions between the diviners and scholar-officials,and the most important impact of the interaction between the two.This article tries to show the basic situation of the interaction between the diviners and scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty.The first chapter mainly introduces the basic situation of the diviners group in Song Dynasty.The stratum of the diviners in the Song Dynasty mainly included the disabled,monks,Taoists,healers,and Scholars.Of course,a small number of diviners were farmers.Scholars were a relatively common group of diviners in the Song Dynasty.Because of their failure in the imperial examination and forced to earn a living,some scholars would become diviners.The above-mentioned groups generally acquired knowledge of numeracy through family teaching,master’s teaching,the teaching of fake gods and ghosts,and reading divination books to become diviners.Among them,reading arithmetic books was the main way for diviners to acquire knowledge.In the Song Dynasty,there were two main ways of activity of diviners,One was sitting in the market,that was,the diviners had a fixed place of business in the market;the second was roaming,that was,the diviners did not have a fixed place of business,but traveled around and walked the streets to obtain economic resources for others.The second chapter mainly introduces the daily communication between diviners and scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty.First,in terms of divination activities.As far as the location of divination is concerned,the places used by diviners and scholar-officials for divination were mostly in divinations,roads and scholar-official residences.As far as the content of divination is concerned,the content of divination by diviners and scholar-officials did not include rich and poor,lifespan,children and official movement.Among them,official movement was the most concerned item of scholar-officials.As far as the objects of divination are concerned,the scholar-officials wouldl not only ask the diviners to fortune their own destiny,but also asked the diviners to fortune the lives of their relatives and colleagues.In the divination market of the Song Dynasty,there was also an unhealthy trend of diviners’ admiration for flattery.Second,in terms of life interaction.Diviners and scholar-officials would not only drink and chat,but also talked about poetry and essays,and even some excellent diviners wouldl be retained by the scholar-officials.In addition,these diviners also visited the same scholar-official many times.The third chapter mainly introduces the poetry interaction between diviners and scholar-officials in Song Dynasty.On the one hand,when the diviners divination for scholar-officials,some dictums were in the form of poetry.On the other hand,diviners would also ask for poems and essays from scholar-officials when they visited scholar-officials.These poems and essays could be used as an introduction and proof for diviners.The so-called referral function,that is,the poems and essays presented by the scholar-officials could help the diviners to be more easily received and trusted when visiting others;the so-called proof function,that is,the poems presented by the scholar-officials were often proof of the ability of sorcerers to divination accurately.For scholar-officials,scholar-officials presented poems and essays to diviners,and the poems presented were written on the "poem rolls" carried by diviners.the reason why they were willing to give poems to warlocks is to encourage diviners out of sympathy and cherishment.On the other hand,they also knew that their poems had a great promotion effect for diviners,so they They tried their best to promote the diviners in the poems to expand their reputation;on the other hand,the scholar-officials also wanted to use the poems as a platform for expressing their views,and hoped to spread their views all over the four places with the help of the diviners’ identity as a traveler.The fourth chapter mainly introduces the interactive content of the diviners and scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty besides poetry and daily life.First,in terms of politics,especially in the Northern Song Dynasty,some diviners were called into the palace by the ruler,and their status and status changed greatly,and they would be favored by scholar-officials.In addition,some diviners often had close contacts with officials,and they would get involved in treacherous political turmoil if they were not careful.Politics played an important role between diviners and scholar-officials.Second,in terms of geographical mobility.The diviners traveled all over the world and interacted with the scholar-bureaucrats,which had obvious characteristics of regional mobility.They would first focus on the township,and then spread to the prefectures and counties.Some diviners even traveled across the country to communicate with scholar-bureaucrats.Third,in terms of the name of the diviners.Scholar-officials’ poems and essays often mentioned the name of the diviners.The name of the diviner’s name was named for some reasons and was inseparable from the poetry of the scholar-official.The fifth chapter mainly examines one of the influences of the interaction between the diviners and the scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty,that is,the interaction between the diviners and the scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty made the attitude of the scholar-officials to divination begin to change.On the one hand,scholar-officials in the Song Dynasty began to be keen on learning divination knowledge in their contacts with diviners,but the developing divination had a greater impact on Confucianism.Some scholar-officials renewed the idea that "people who are proficient in heaven and earth are Confucian" They tried to rationalize the behavior of scholar-officials learning divination knowledge.This can also be seen from the acceptance of the diviner Yan Junping from the Western Han Dynasty by the scholar-officials of the Song Dynasty.On the other hand,the acceptance of divination by scholar-officials was also reflected in the fact that they began to participate in the compilation and sorting of divination books by virtue of their own intellectual advantages.Their main purpose was not only to change the bad trend of poor publishing quality of divination books,but also to make scholar-officials learning reference.