Research On The Category And Edit Of Spiritual Novels In

The theme of catergories'division and layout of included the aesthetic conception of the editors' to literature and some related information, such as quotations and notes, and reflected the backgrand of authority's adorement to Taosim. It is necessary and important to study from the angle of categories and edition. The most primary categories of are God and Godess.Thus, it is significant and valuable to study God and Godess first in order to understand . The article deeply disscussed God and Godess through collecting, reading and textual reseach for historical datas and the editors' backgraund in politics, religion, culture and literature.The article contained four chapters.Chapter one, the reason of spiritual novels'appearance, disscussed the relationship between official culture of early Song Dynasty and the genres and sorts of previous works, aiming at presenting its position and speciality in spiritual novel..Chapter two, the features of spiritual novels'categories, studied the characteristics of categories, the connotation of divine culture reflected by the characters in spiritual novels, the editors'beliefs in divine culture and their psychology in acceptance, to further understand the connotation of God and Godess and its distinctive quality in .Chapter three, in order to clearly explain some comncret problems , such as the religion and aesthetic sense of editors' and notes of quoted books.Chapter four, the influence of spiritual novel to the later generation, discussed the impact made by spiritual novels to the later literature, especially to novels. The distinctive backgraund, conditions and ideas of spiritual novels in led to its distinguishing position in the history of ancient Chinese literature, which was embodied by its influence to later literature.Therefore , this chapter began from the influence of spiritual novel to the later novel, mainly discussing the collection of spiritual novels before Song Dynasty and the influence to the later novel.To clearify the significace of spiritual novel and edition of to the later literature, it offered dramatical materials in enclosure.