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The Study Of Anomalies In ZuoZhuan

Posted on:2015-03-27Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q P ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330467964471Subject:Literature and art
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Zuozhuan is a very attractive historical book, for thousands of years there were so many people had studied it, and made a lot of achievements. There are many mysterious and unusual phenomenon in ZuoZhuan, like the mandate of heaven, catastrophe, ghosts and gods, dreams and so on. These unnormal or mysterious phenomenon, according to different classification criteria, usually be called "witchcraft","genie","magic","catastrophe" such like that, and made peope confused. As a historical book, Zuozhuan should record the truth and should be realistic; but these mysterious and unusual phenomenon was part of the ancient history of witchcraft tradition. The historiographer has unique knowledge background and the official career requirement are the condition of these stories of anomaly in ZuoZhuan. And because of the ChunQiu period official academic fell down, the historiographer used the anomaly to persuade the dominator to doing the right things. These anomalies made ZuoZhuan became more interesting and more imaginative, but these historiographers didn’t plan to made ZuoZhuan became more literariness, they recorded these stories as like they were real, they most time believed these stories were real, and reflected the culture of the ChunQiu period. These stories also reflected in ChunQiu period people’s perception of the world, the way they thought, the background of their knowledge, and their emotion and value orientation. These mysterious and unusual phenomenon are a miniature of the ChunQiu period, and it is the real historical expression. Exploring the cultural meaning behind these anomaly will helps us understanding the reality of the ChunQiu period, and there is a great deal of research value.This paper based on analysis of many recordings of the anomaly in ZuoZhuan, though closing reading analyzing them, and using sociology, cultural science, anthropology and psychology research methods. In this paper by we will analysis, statistics, classification these anomaly, try to research the anomaly’s social and cultural context, to find the anomaly’s source. And explore the historiographer’s psychological motivation and people in the spring and autumn period how rto understand、explain and record these anomaly in ZuoZhuan. This paper just try to Recover these strange phenomena’s reasons of social and cultural, and try to find the meaning of beyond the text.Paper main body is divided into five parts. The first part defines the concept of "anomaly", and base on the whole vision of zuozhuan it will statistic and classify these anomaly and to find the pattern of the anomaly’s distribution state of different time and place, and how the social and political culture effect the distribution. The time of zuozhuan was written and its material sources had effected these anomaly how to be recorded. Then explore the way of the rumors how to be spreaded and how to be documented. In the second part mainly discuss the review the astronomical anomaly, including the solar eclipse, SuiXing magnitude (fire), the guest star, shouting stars, meteorites, comets, and gas and so on. During the spring and autumn period astrological theory development gradually, astrologers are often combined with the theories of Yin and Yang and five lines to explain the astrological progress, which makes the simple dialectical materialism of Chinese philosophy is also developed.The third part is mainly discuss the anomaly of geology and climate, which usually caused great damage in the social and economic production activities, especially some long large climate disaster also caused lasting psychological trauma to ancestors, which had deeply effected the cultural traditions of the Chinese civilization. The relief police was established at the beginning of the western zhou dynasty, and which during the ChunQiu period obtained great development, disaster relief and disaster prevention measures and methodsde also get increased. Though witchcraft culture was still strong in the ChunQiu period, so the relief activities in form of witchcraft was also very popular, but with the development of people-oriented socialism, in front of the disaster, the power of the people more and more be taken seriously.The fourth part is to analyze the zuozhuan, animals and characters in different lines of different appearance. Involving animals in zuozhuan, one kind is ordinary, common animals is some different from the usual behavior, such as the cock since the break its tail, wild boar people set up, etc. Second is the behavior and is usually, but the spring and autumn period are simply as some mysterious, destiny omen, such as the gates Zheng Guo two snakes, birds at here club "hee hee" call, etc. There is originally for imaginary animal, such as dragon and kirin, will be in zuozhuan, as real animals to write; But no extravagance and render their god in zuozhuan, the opposite sex characteristics, and future generations of the dragon worship, kirin auspicious said a big difference, etc. Characters are different appearance of the ejector are for life and death, abnormal morphology is often recorded when the person was born, from the character’s appearance, temperament, the respect such as voice, hand to predict its fate; Another kind is dead when abnormal performance, such as back from the dead, the character induction and etc. Zuozhuan, attention to the characters of the special-shaped different appearance, is later comment on characters of wei and jin dynasty.The fifth part try to base on the religious belief system of the spring and autumn period, to analyze the dreams and ghosts a rare phenomenon, read text inspects zuozhuan, dream like generate psychological and pathological factors, as well as in a dream like the role of religion and wu culture in the process of generating; Will dream like according to its content of zuozhuan, three classes of war, sacrifice and death, from the psychology Angle analysis oneiromancy fulfilled in zuozhuan, reason, and spring and autumn period, the basic situation and status of the oneiromancy. In zuozhuan, the gods, spirits and concepts such as spectre, while China’s religion although there is no clear teachings, but during the spring and autumn period for the basic system, the development of more mature. Like ghosts and gods in zuozhuan mainly dream, appeared by echo direct manifestations of three ways, zuozhuan, the records of these manifestations of ghosts and gods example (or rumors) often become a kind of public opinion tool, behind also contains a specific political purpose, often recorded in zuozhuan, these ghosts stories are often obscure express their political stance and attitude.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zuozhuan, Anomaly, Astronomy, Astrology, Disaster, Dream land, Ghosts and God
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