The Study On The Evolution Of Name Witchcraft Theme Story

Since the legend era,the complex and mysterious witchcraft culture is like a huge torrent,surging in the long river of Chinese culture.The witchcraft culture is rich in connotation and diverse in form,among which there is a kind of name witchcraft based on name belief,which has formed a special interactive relationship with ancient Chinese literature.On the one hand,the name witchcraft tradition has traveled for thousands of years through the fertile soil of ancient Chinese literature;On the other hand,ancient Chinese literature,especially narrative literature,has also enriched its own cultural connotation because of name witchcraft,formed special narrative techniques,and added strange and obscure aesthetic characteristics.This article takes time as the axis and the change of the name witchcraft theme story as the latitude,exploring the different states and manifestations of the name witchcraft tradition in literature in different periods,aiming to comb the process of the formation and development of the name witchcraft theme story.In the pre-Qin and Han dynasties,the name witchcraft gradually sprouts from a thought and forms the embryonic form of the theme story of "calling name to control ghosts".From the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Tang and Song Dynasties,the name witchcraft theme story has a fixed structural form of " calling it will result in..." and a unified theme of " calling the name will have power ".It also extends and morphs into new forms such as " marionette curse witchcraft " and "the power of writing names",completing the finalization process of the name witchcraft theme story.Up to the popular literature works of the Ming and Qing dynasties,such as the heroes’ romance,the supernatural novel,the novels depicting social life and so on,the name witchcraft has basically completed the process of disenchantment.As a material of fantasy aesthetic,a narrative mode of " responding to the call brings disaster",and a narrative technique of "name divination",name witchcraft skillfully integrates into the popular novel text and endows the novel texts with unique aesthetic connotation by virtue of its peculiar mysterious nature.Name witchcraft belongs to the branch culture outside the traditional mainstream culture.Studying the interaction process between name witchcraft and ancient Chinese narrative literature,as well as its significance and influence on literature,we can combine the study of ancient Chinese branch culture with mainstream literature research,to explore the dialogue between non-mainstream folk culture and mainstream literati’s literature,and to construct an up and down path between elite literature and secular culture,and make up for the lack of "top-down" with "bottom-up" research.